India: Trials & Appeals & Compensation

Supreme Court through its judgment dated 27.07.2026 in the matter of Tejas J Shah & Amisha T Shah v. Mantri Technology Constellations Private Limited (Now Known as Buoyant Technology Constellations Private Limited)[1] held that imposition of moratorium on a company under Section 14 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (“IBC”) is not a ground to reject consumer complaints against the promoters/ directors of the company.

On 24 July 2026, a single judge of the Delhi High Court, Justice Amit Bansal, delivered a judgment on whether training a large language model (LLM) on copyrighted content results in copyright infringement. The judgment, delivered after 32 hearings, dismissed ANI’s application demanding an interim injunction, holding that OpenAI’s storage of ANI’s literary works and copyrighted content for training falls within the ambit of Section 52(1)(a) of the Copyright Act, 1957, and that the outputs given by ChatGPT were not the same or substantially similar to ANI’s news content.

In Vanashakti v Union of India, 2026 INSC 761 a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court pursuant to review proceedings settled the long-contested issue of ex post facto Environmental Clearance (EC) granted under the Environment Impact Assessment Notification, 2006 (EIA Notification, 2006). The Court held that the prior EC regime is mandatory in nature and upheld the validity of the 2017 Notification issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) as a time bound amnesty scheme, and struck down the 2021 Office Memorandum (2021 OM) as an impermissible administrative action with prospective effect. The Court passed a common judgment and order in a group of petitions.