DISCUSSIONS CARVED FROM THE FINE PRINT OF COMMERCE
Author: Tejaswini Nair, 4th-year B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at Symbiosis Law School Pune INTRODUCTION Hub-and-spoke cartels are a sophisticated form of anti-competitive practice under the Competition Act, 2002[1]. In these arrangements, a central entity, the “hub,” such as a supplier, distributor, or digital platform facilitates coordination among competing firms, the “spokes.”[2] Unlike traditional cartels defined...
Author: Gorantla Bhargav Gandhi, 5th-year B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at CHRIST (Deemed to be a university) Bangalore INTRODUCTION In recent years, the Indian legal system has been under enormous strain – crores of cases pending across all levels of judiciary, litigants waiting for years, and a system struggling to meet the needs of a growing,...
Last week, Raj Shamani dropped a bombshell of a podcast featuring an hour-long conversation with Vijay Mallya, the former business tycoon whose fall from grace has been a topic of extensive debate in Indian public discourse. Amidst reflections and rebuttals, Mr. Mallya made one particularly striking claim: “Vijay Mallya has not borrowed a single rupee...
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