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Legal Practice Portal · India

India’s digital law is being rewritten faster than most practices track it.

Synthetic media, data protection and platform liability rules changed materially in 2026, and commencement dates are staggered across the next eighteen months. Bylaw.in maintains a dated record of what has actually come into force, and what it means for the people and businesses it applies to.

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Practice areas

Each area is organised around the problem a visitor arrives with, rather than around statutory headings.

AI & Synthetic Media Law

Individuals · Platforms · Agencies

Deepfake and morphed-content removal, personality rights enforcement, evidence preservation and court applications; and, on the other side, labelling and grievance-mechanism compliance for platforms, AI tools and creator agencies operating in India.

If this is happening to you →

White Collar Investigations & Enforcement

ED · PMLA · CBI · EOW · SFIO

For promoters, directors, businesses and professionals facing summons, searches, questioning, account or asset freezing, attachment, arrest risk, company-fraud investigation or securities enforcement.

Assess the investigation route →

Insolvency & IBC

Creditors · Companies · Guarantors

Section 7 and Section 9 applications, claims, Section 12A settlement, resolution plans, liquidation and personal guarantor proceedings, read against the 2026 amendments and what is actually in force.

See what changed in 2026 →

Airport, Customs & LOC

Customs · DRI · Immigration · NDPS

For travellers and families when someone is held at an Indian airport: gold or currency seizure, Customs arrest and bail, NDPS allegations, passport and visa offences, and Look Out Circulars that stop people at immigration.

If someone is held at the airport →

Private Capital, Investment Funds & Financial Regulation

Funds · Investors · Founders · Managers

Private equity and venture transactions, AIF and fund formation, Category III strategies, foreign funds and FPI/FVCI, GIFT IFSC, fund compliance, disputes, investigations and special situations.

Find the relevant workstream →

Arbitration, Mediation & Dispute Resolution

Commercial · Cross-border · Pre-litigation

Domestic and international arbitration, including arbitration support to law firms, enforcement of foreign awards in India, and Section 9 interim relief. Alongside it, mediation as a settlement route — pre-institution mediation, settlement drafting, and enforceability under the Mediation Act.

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Data Protection & DPDP

Businesses · Data Fiduciaries

Readiness work against the May 2027 commencement: notice and consent architecture, security safeguards, breach reporting procedure, and the additional obligations that attach to a Significant Data Fiduciary.

Assess your exposure →

Prediction Markets & Digital Assets

Platforms · Cross-border

Regulatory position of prediction market platforms in India, constitutional questions arising under the 2025 gaming legislation, and structuring considerations for the India–UAE corridor.

Practice note in preparation

Mutual Consent Divorce

Couples · NRI & Overseas

Divorce by mutual consent under the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act — the two-motion procedure, the statutory cooling-off period and when it may be waived, settlement terms, and matters where one spouse is outside India.

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Marriage Registration

Indian & Foreign Nationals

Special Marriage Act registration, Tatkal procedure and FRRO compliance, including registrations involving a foreign national spouse and the documentation each nationality is asked to produce.

See the registration route →

Regulatory ledger

Each entry records the instrument, the date it was notified, and its current commencement status. Where a provision is not yet in force, that is stated rather than implied.

Commenced
26 May 2026 In force, in part

Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Act, 2026

S.O. 2625(E), dated 22 May 2026, brought most of Act No. 6 of 2026 into force on 26 May 2026: admission or rejection within fourteen days, a narrower Section 12A withdrawal window, liquidation supervised by the committee of creditors, no interim moratorium where the application concerns a personal guarantor, and a penalty of up to ₹2 crore for frivolous filings. The creditor-initiated process, group insolvency and the cross-border framework are enacted but not yet notified.

See what is in force and what is not →
Notified
10 February 2026 In force 20 Feb 2026

IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2026

The amendment defines “synthetically generated information” for the first time in Indian law, requires AI-generated media to be clearly and prominently labelled with traceable provenance metadata, and sharply compresses the windows in which intermediaries must act on unlawful content. Escalation runs through the platform’s grievance officer; a separate government and law-enforcement channel exists behind that. Failure to act within the prescribed period places safe harbour under Section 79 of the IT Act at risk.

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2–3 hours to act

The takedown clock

The general period for acting on court or government-notified unlawful content was cut from thirty-six hours to three hours. A separate, faster two-hour period applies to citizen complaints about private, morphed or non-consensual intimate content. In practice this means evidence must be preserved before a takedown request is made, because removal destroys the record you will later need for a court application or an FIR.

Start with evidence — the first 24 hours →
Notified
13 November 2025 Phased to May 2027

Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025

The Rules operationalise the DPDP Act, 2023 in three stages. The Data Protection Board was constituted on notification; consent manager registration opens in November 2026; and the substantive obligations on every Data Fiduciary — notice, consent, security safeguards and breach reporting — become enforceable from 13 May 2027, with penalties reaching Rs. 250 crore. The runway is the point: compliance work commissioned now is materially cheaper than remediation later.

See what falls due before May 2027 →
Case law
2026 Developing

Personality rights and AI misuse before the High Courts

India has no dedicated statute for AI-driven identity misuse. Protection is being built by the Delhi and Bombay High Courts through interim injunctions, restraining unauthorised use of a person’s name, image, likeness, voice and mannerisms in synthetic content, and extending to unidentified defendants through John Doe orders. Because this is judge-made and moving, the position stated on this site is dated and revised as orders are reported.

Where the courts stand today →

Ledger reviewed as at 30 September 2026

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Bylaw.in is an independent legal practice portal covering Indian law. It publishes practice notes and client-facing guidance on areas that are changing quickly enough that general commentary goes stale.

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