India: Consumer Law

Zee Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against Nykaa for using copyrighted songs in Instagram reels without proper commercial licensing, seeking $200,000 in damages. The case highlights a critical gap in how brands use social media music libraries: while Instagram permits personal use of licensed music, commercial content requires separate synchronisation licenses that most brands fail to obtain.

APTEL, vide judgement dated 27.04.2026 in Appeal Nos. 190 of 2019 and 216 of 2019 titled Damodar Valley Corporation v West Bengal Electricity Regulatory Commission & Another, dismissed the appeals filed by Damodar Valley Corporation (“DVC”), upholding the finding of the West Bengal Electricity Regulatory Commission (“WBERC”) that radial mode of supply by a generating company to a distribution licensee cannot be considered as sale to a consumer.

Since the publication of an earlier article examining the evolving contours of the “average consumer test in an informed society” [Read here: https://ssrana.in/articles/the-average-consumer-test-in-an-informed-society/], the Division Bench of the Delhi High Court has now delivered its judgment in Mountain Valley Springs India Pvt. Ltd. Vs. Baby Forest Ayurveda Pvt. Ltd. FAO (OS) (COMM) 111/2024, decided on February 27, 2026.

The Delhi High Court delivered a significant order in Britannia Industries Ltd against Shri Swastik Organics & Ors., granting an injunction in favor of Britania Industries Ltd for alleged infringement...

The advent of digital advertising has brought trademark law into direct conflict with online market practices, particularly keyword bidding. The use of competitors’ trademarks by businesses to promote their own goods and services, albeit as invisible keywords, has often been debated as “infringement”, thereby causing unfair advantages and consumer confusion.

CERC by its notification dated 24.03.2026, has notified the CERC (Terms and Conditions for Renewable Energy Certificates for Renewable Energy Generation) (First Amendment) Regulations, 2026 amending the CERC (Terms and Conditions for Renewable Energy Certificates for Renewable Energy Generation) Regulations, 2022.

In Sukhvir Singh v. United India Insurance Co. Ltd.1, the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission-II, U.T. Chandigarh, delivered a significant ruling on the interplay between...

Telecommunication and broadcasting laws in India is a specialized area of law, which has changed from the state-controlled monopoly to a very complex regulatory environment managed through different statutes and a tribunal...

Consumer litigation often turns on modest sums but raises disproportionately important questions of principle. The decision of the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission...