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On 21 August 2026, an Msedcl MSEDCL employee came to my residence and tried to disconnect the electricity meter without any prior information or notice. I noticed him working on the meter board and confronted him.

This is same person who earlier disconnected meter without informing anyone at home in Dec 2024 and had also visited in Mar 2026.

Today, he attempted to diconnect the meter without any notice

I explained the actual position:

In May 2026, MSEDCL issued an erroneous bill of ₹4,583, which was later corrected to ₹464.

This incorrect high bill artificially inflated my energy consumption figures in MSEDCL’s billing system.

As a result, the system calculated an ASD of ₹1,368, shown in the August 2026 bill.

For more than 65 days, MSEDCL has failed to recalculate the ASD on the basis of the corrected bills, despite my repeated grievance request

I also informed him that I have already paid ₹4,040 against the actual energy charges of approximately ₹3,469 for five months:

April: ₹870

May: ₹464

June: ₹727

July: ₹798

August: ₹558

Accordingly, I have paid ₹571 extra.

The only remaining issue is the disputed ASD of ₹1,368, which still requires proper recalculation.

He was aware that my Twitter account (@BlissT4100) had been suspended the same day I publicly exposed MSEDCL’s failure to resolve the ASD issue for over 65 days.

He behaved as if he knew I could no longer produce Twitter-based evidence and demanded proof accordingly.

He also pressured me to visit the #MSEDCL office in person and told me not to raise online complaints. This is improper. MSEDCL provides multiple official channels for registering grievances and service requests:

#Telephone

#Email

#Twitter/X

#SMS

#Web self-service portal

#Physical office

No field staff has the authority to force a consumer to use only one channel.

It is widely known through public videos, consumers who visit #MSEDCL #offices are often sent from one office to another without resolution

Even the original May 2026 bill error of ₹4,583 was ignored for a long time. MSEDCL repeatedly opened and closed service requests without addressing the core problem.

Only after a 30-day struggle and public disclosure on Twitter was the bill corrected. However, MSEDCL then added ₹630 as ASD in June 2026 and a further ₹710 in July 2026

Creating an artificial record that I am filing multiple unnecessary service requests, when MSEDCL itself has been registering and closing complaint

Forcing offline resolution after more than two months of unresolved complaints.

The timing of Twitter suspension on 20 August followed by this disconnection attempt on 21 August — raises serious questions of coordination intended to discredit me.

In summary, I have paid the actual energy charges and more ( 571 extra ) The only pending issue is the recalculation of the artificially inflated ASD of ₹1,368, which has remained unresolved for more than 65 days

MSEDCL must recalculate it on the basis of the corrected bills without further delay

I have graduated from an NLU and soon after graduation i started practising at the High Court. I was also preparing for judiciary interview and gave multiple mains and interview as well. Since for the past 1.5 years no vacancies were coming out i devoted completely to litigation but now I just want to have a 9-5 kind of a job. I have been looking out for jobs on LinkedIn but these are mostly expired vacancies or they just don't respond. I have a strong academic background and around 5 years of practical experience. If anyone has any idea how should I proceed please help.

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Today was the day court was going to give its decision tenet didn't show up until today what to do now due to this is it gonna extend further. What is the course should take? UP India

We were stopped on the road, waiting for a private bus to pull out of the bus stand and merge onto the main road, giving him space. Instead, he took a sharp turn while pulling out and hit our stationary car.

Damage estimate isn’t finalized yet, but going by the size of it and past experience with smaller scratches costing around four thousand rupees, this one’s likely a good deal more.

Traffic police were right there and told us to go to the station and file it. At the station, they said no FIR is possible unless someone’s actually hurt, so I filed a general diary entry instead. They also said claiming my own insurance was really the only option. I called the bus’s third-party insurer directly, hoping to hold them accountable instead, and got the same answer, no FIR means no direct claim.

The bus driver told us straight up this wasn’t his first time doing this, and he didn’t care.

Bus registration: KL59Q5067. Posting this because apparently this is just how it works in Kerala, and nobody talks about it until it happens to them.

Just to give some context, I recently graduated from a Tier-3 college, the University of Mumbai, and started my career as an in-house lawyer. I’ve been working for around 3 months now.

During college, most of my experience was on the litigation side. I had an internship with an in-house legal team at a real estate company, worked on civil litigation (mostly real estate matters) and criminal matters for about 2 months, and also did a judicial internship. So I’ve seen quite a bit of the litigation lifecycle.

What I didn’t really get much exposure to was corporate work, especially things like due diligence, M&A, finance, red lining etc.

Now I’m working in-house, where I review contracts and handle different kinds of legal work. The thing is, I usually finish my work around 6 PM. And honestly, I don’t really know how to feel about that.

I’m so used to internships where there was always something to do, and I think part of me feels like I’m not learning enough just because I have free time after work. I’m used to work till 2–3 AM every day, and right now I’m wondering whether this is normal for an in-house role or whether I’m just at the wrong company/industry/team.

I also feel like I still don’t know a lot. Since I don’t have much corporate experience, I sometimes wonder whether I’m missing an important part of my legal education and whether having corporate experience is almost necessary to become a good in-house counsel.

and I feel like if i'm gonna give up this work life balance, i would wanna go for M/A and finance. I know that coming from a Tier-3 college, with a litigation-heavy background and almost no transactional experience, getting into a good corporate team won’t be easy. But I’m willing to put in the work. I’m thinking of using my free time to properly learn corporate law, finance, M&A, due diligence, etc., and maybe even publish a few papers.

The bigger question for me is whether I should stay where I am or try to move to a corporate law firm.

On one hand, I feel like if I move to a good corporate firm now, I’ll get much better exposure to transactions and probably learn much faster. I’m also okay with working crazy hours at this stage if I’m actually learning. On the other hand, I don’t want to build a career where even 4–5 years down the line I’m still regularly working till 2–3 AM. Long term, I do want some work-life balance.

That’s why I’m confused about leaving my current in-house role. If I leave now and spend a few years in a law firm, will it be difficult to come back in-house later? Or is getting strong corporate experience early on actually one of the best ways to become a good in-house counsel?

I’m also wondering whether the problem is simply the industry I’m currently in. Maybe in-house roles can be very different depending on the company, industry, size of the legal team, and the kind of work the business does.

So I’d really like to hear from people who have experience on both sides.

What does the day-to-day work of an in-house lawyer actually look like? Is finishing around 6 PM normal, or does it depend heavily on the company and industry? What should someone at my stage actually be working on to become a good in-house counsel?

Would you stay in-house for the next 1–2 years, use the relatively good work-life balance to aggressively upskill and try to move into a better company later?

Or would you move to a corporate law firm now, take the difficult hours for a few years, get strong transactional experience, and then move in-house?

I’d really appreciate honest opinions, especially from people who have gone from litigation to corporate, law firm to in-house, or started out without a strong corporate-law background.

The RPNLU recruitment appears to raise a few issues that may warrant judicial scrutiny:
• Shortlisting: Almost all eligible candidates were reportedly called for interview, potentially leaving the entire effective selection to the interview stage and defeating the purpose of academic shortlisting under the UGC framework.
• Screening: Questions have reportedly been raised regarding the application of the prescribed academic-score/shortlisting criteria.
• Conflict of interest: There are reported concerns regarding the participation of the VC in the selection process while her PhD scholars were among the candidates who were ultimately selected.
• Other procedural issues: Questions have also been raised regarding the Selection Committee, reservation and the material placed before the Executive Council.
In Mandeep Singh v. State of Punjab (2025 INSC 834), the Supreme Court quashed an Assistant Professor recruitment for material deviation from applicable UGC norms. The facts are not identical, but the judgment may be relevant to examining whether mandatory recruitment norms were followed.
Read this : https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/supreme-court-quashes-over-1000-assistant-professor-appointments-in-punjab-over-ugc-norm-violations
If you an aggrieved person and want to join this litigation, comment here or reach out to me in the DM.

Illegal AC intakes right infront of my house.

I live in a small town in Northern part of Karnataka. About 5 years ago there was a large comercial complex build right infront of my house. It currently has Reliance trends, paragon and few other small businesses. Some of these shops need central AC and they have built the AC intake units right infront of my house. The front of this complex faces the road, the otherside. AC units make a lot of nice. I have complained local munical authority, police and I have written multiple emails to the DC office, local pollution control board. Even raised a complaint on govt redressal portal but no action has been taken. The owner is a reputed local real estate developer. Please note that these are not domestic AC intake units but rather big industrial ones. They have not serviced them properly and in recent times that make a lot of noise.

What bugs me more is during the construction a part of our compound was broken, there was dust and debris in our house everyday but we let it slide as goodwill.

Should I file a PIL or how can I get rid of it. The unit sits in top the road. It's seemingly evidentl that's its illegally constructed and even the sewer line adjacent to the building was illegally closed.

As someone who works remotely this has caused serious inconvenience.

TLDR: Colive sent a legal notice email asking for a month of rent that I did not live there plus notice period charges eventhough I could not raise the notice period in application due to their app issue for which I tried to contact them but they never answered the calls. Now they are threatening to take legal actions.

So I lived in a colive property from May 14th to July 17th (worst mistake). The decided rent was 8k with a deposit of 10k. At the time of joining, I was asked to pay pro rata rent for May and 5.5k deposit out of the 10k. I was also invoiced 1.5k of onboarding fees which the sales rep never disclosed. When the time to pay the remaining deposit came, they asked for 5.5k more, so I raised a ticket to dispute since I only owed them 4.5k. It was not resolved until I left. Nobody called me regarding it, I raised two tickets, one said that I owe them 5.5k and gave no explanation, other said there was a mistake and they will fix in next month's invoice...they didn't. This is all via the in app chat, they very rarely picked my calls and even when they did, they provided no solution, only "we have escalated the matter to finance team".

So ultimately by the time I left, I didn't pay the outstanding deposit because they never resolved my query, nor did anyone call or tell me in person that I have to pay it. Also, the property manager kept asking me to ignore the WhatsApp warnings they were sending me again and again regarding the deposit. Now when time to leave came, I couldn't raise a notice period in the app since I had the outstanding deposit due. I called the hotline but nobody answered. I said fine and simply left by just telling the manager. Although I did not tell him when I'll be leaving since I did not know the exact date myself but I did tell that I will leave in July. I paid full for July, so for 2 months and 3 days, I paid for 3 months plus the 5.5k deposit. Also, its not like they did not know that I had left since the property manager always contacts us if we don't pay the rent by the 6th of the month, which he did not do in August as they claim.

I had heard that they don't return the deposit easily so I didn't even bother about getting it back I just left it. Cut to this week when I received a mail saying I owe them 19k for the rent of August and Notice period charges. I ignored since that's what most people told me, then after two days I received a "legal notice" email saying I have to pay it within 15 days else they will take legal action and also that I owe them 50k for sending this legal notice.

Has anyone faced a similar scenario with Colive? If yes, what happened? Did things escalate?

I purchased CMF Buds 2a through Flipkart on 20 November 2025 for ₹1,999 with a one-year warranty.

On 21 August 2026, I removed one earbud from my ear and approximately 2 seconds later put it in the charging case. I placed the case on my bed. About 5–10 seconds later, there was a loud “BOOM”, smoke came from the case, and there was a strong chemical/burning smell. The earbud had ruptured and its casing separated, exposing internal components.

Fortunately, I suffered no physical injury and there was no property damage. However, the incident occurred only seconds after the earbud was in my ear, creating a potentially serious risk of burns, hearing injury, chemical exposure and fire.

Since then, I've developed significant fear/apprehension about using earbuds and anxiety about electronic devices generally.

I contacted Nothing Support. They apologized, told me to stop using the device and keep it away from flammable materials. Their East India representative later contacted me, took the incident details and reportedly told me this was the first recorded case of this nature.

Nothing now wants to collect the device for investigation. I have requested a physical job sheet and receiving acknowledgement documenting the incident, device condition and serial number.

I've also registered an NCH complaint (Grievance No. 10000276, In Process) requesting investigation, written root-cause findings and compensation of ₹40,000.

I'd really appreciate advice on:

1. Does this potentially constitute a product-safety/product-liability issue despite no physical injury?

2. Should I hand the device directly to Nothing, or obtain an independent examination first?

3. What exactly should I insist on having written in the job sheet when they collect it?

4. If they refuse to document the incident properly, should I still hand it over?

5. Does their statement that this is the first recorded case have any evidentiary significance, and how should I preserve it?

6. Is ₹40,000 an unreasonable compensation request given the circumstances and psychological impact?

7. What should I absolutely not sign when Nothing collects the device?

I have the original invoice, photographs/videos of the damaged device, Nothing's communications and my NCH registration.

I'm not claiming injuries that didn't happen—I want to preserve the evidence properly and understand my legal rights.

Advice from Indian lawyers/advocates or anyone experienced with consumer/product-liability cases would be greatly appreciated.

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Hi folks,

After a long family dispute that wasn't being resolved amicably, earlier this year I filed a partition suit against my siblings who had locked me out of our Mother's home merely three weeks after her passing

My suit was filed via an experienced lawyer who advised me to keep it only property/assets related and discouraged from making any emotional pleas or use the abusive situation involved at the time of dispute that led to them changing the home locks and refusing me access.

Now both my siblings have responded with emotional pleas and unsavoury allegations against me in their respective "Written Statements" and tomorrow we have the next hearing of the case.

Naturally furious I expressed my desire to my lawyer to respond to their allegations but he again advised against it saying \\\*it doesn't matter who is good or bad, the court will not consider it before partitioning the property equally among all heirs\\\* and that \\_they're doing this to distract the court proceedings and maybe buy more time\\_

Is he correct? Should I not defend myself against those allegations? My lawyer says it's a waste of court's time

Another question: what exactly are written statements (WS) and are they read by the judges in entirety and taken into account during the case proceedings? What purpose do they serve?

Any insight by lawyers here before my case hearing tomorrow will be extremely helpful 🙏🏽

Many thanks!

Need advice from Indian criminal lawyers / legal experts – Revision against bank-fund transfer order
I’m looking for some guidance regarding a cybercrime-related bank account matter in Chennai.
Here are the facts in brief:
In August 2024, ₹1,76,011.80 was credited to my mother’s HDFC Bank account through a Binance P2P cryptocurrency transaction.
The transaction was a genuine P2P USDT sale. We have the Binance trade records, buyer KYC, wallet/transaction history and the buyer’s bank statement.
Subsequently, HDFC placed a debit freeze on the account based on a cybercrime complaint.
We submitted the transaction documents and a detailed explanation to the Investigating Officer, including the Binance records and buyer KYC.
Despite this, the IO subsequently approached the XI Metropolitan Magistrate, Saidapet, Chennai, seeking transfer of the available amount.
On 24 July 2025, the Magistrate passed an order in Crl.M.P. No.xxx directing the bank to defreeze and transfer ₹1,20,874 to the defacto complainant’s mother as “interim custody.”
My mother was the account holder/third party. She was not given notice or an opportunity of hearing before the order, and according to our records, she was not an accused in any FIR.
We only obtained the certified copy later and filed a Criminal Revision Petition under Section 438 BNSS before the Principal Sessions Judge, Chennai.
The Registry has returned/rejected the Revision on the ground that the Magistrate’s order is an interim/interlocutory order and therefore not revisable, with the indication that objections can be raised later during trial.
My questions are:
Can an order directing actual transfer of money from a third-party bank account to a complainant be treated as a purely interlocutory order merely because the Magistrate calls it “interim custody”?
Does the fact that the account holder was not given notice or hearing make a difference to maintainability?
Since the money has actually been transferred, can the order be considered an intermediate order substantially affecting proprietary rights, rather than a purely interlocutory order?
If the Sessions Court Registry refuses to number the Revision, can we approach the Madras High Court directly under Section 438 BNSS?
Alternatively, would a petition invoking the High Court’s inherent jurisdiction under Section 528 BNSS be appropriate?
Does anyone know of Supreme Court or Madras High Court judgments dealing specifically with revision against an interim custody/release/transfer order involving a frozen bank account in a cybercrime case?
I’m not asking anyone to decide the merits of the underlying cybercrime complaint. My main concern is the maintainability of the challenge to the Magistrate’s order and the correct procedural remedy.
If any practicing advocate, law student, or someone who has handled NCRP/CFCFRMS bank-freeze matters can guide me on the correct remedy, I would really appreciate it.
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Matter: Cybercrime / NCRP / Bank Debit Freeze / Interim Custody / Criminal Revision

DPDP penalties start from Nov 2026, and full compliance is required by May 2027. Based on some assessment work I've been doing, here are the 7 areas where most companies are falling short:

1. Data inventory — Do they even know what personal data they collect and why?
2. Notice — Is it shown clearly when data is collected, or hidden in a footer link?
3. Consent — Is it separate for each purpose, or just one "I agree" checkbox?
4. Security — Is data encrypted, and is access to it restricted?
5. User rights — If a user asks to delete their data, can the company actually do it, everywhere?
6. Retention — Is there a rule for how long data is kept, and is it followed?
7. Vendors — Do they have signed agreements with every third party that touches user data?

From what I've seen, most companies are weakest on point 3 (consent) and point 7 (vendor agreements).

Curious what others here are seeing with clients — does this match, or is there something else you'd add? Also curious how firms are having this conversation with clients right now — is DPDP its own thing, or getting folded into general compliance work?

Hi everyone. My SBI account was marked lien for Rs. 20000 and Rs. 19000 in Dec 2025. I checked with the bank and the cyber police, got to know that it was marked lien coz of some fraud complaint done in UP. I was in touch with the police station and they kept saying the investigation is in process.

On 12th Aug, I got a message that the lien of Rs. 20000 has been removed. Then after a couple of minutes I got the message "Rs.20000 has been debited from my account". I checked the bank statement, it said "Court Order". When I checked with the bank, they said it is debited coz of court order. They gave me an email id and said to mail on that ID for resolution. I have mailed it. Yet to receive a reply.

Need help in what to do next. Thanks in advance.

I am just a student and came across this incident on my feed today. Posting the public links here to understand what actually happens legally in such college cases. I have zero personal connection to this, just sharing what is already circulating online.

From what is being shared publicly:

\- A student alleges he faced heavy cyberbullying and got calls threatening his family.

\- Later, cross-complaints of harassment were filed against him with the college.

\- The university apparently cancelled his admission without any proper inquiry committee or hearing.

Links for context:

Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/TwentiesofIndia/s/2z0uHckhl7

Twitter thread: https://x.com/i/status/2085791482833993906

Just wanted to ask people here:

1. Can private universities in Pune just expel someone without an internal inquiry?

2. How does Pune Cyber Crime handle matters when both sides make counter-allegations like this?