India: Construction & Planning

In a highway, metro, transmission line or refinery dispute, what defeats a tribunal is rarely a question of law. It is the state of the record. Fifteen thousand pages of measurement books, hindrance registers, progress reports, material reconciliation statements and joint survey sheets and two delay analyses that cannot both be right, each prepared by an expert retained by the party it vindicates

There comes a point in every commercial dispute where the courtroom stops being a refuge and starts looking like a mirror, reflecting not the injustice you claim, but the contractual mess you have made.

Redevelopment in Mumbai is rarely just about bricks and mortar. More often, it is about power, memory, and the stubborn mathematics of majority rule. When Polestar Realtors Pvt. Ltd. found itself staring at twenty-six holdouts in a sixty-three-member housing society in Bandra, the dispute landed before Justice Amit Borkar at the Bombay High Court.

The Rajasthan Real Estate Appellate Tribunal, in Jasbinder Kaur v. Crystal Buildtech Pvt. Ltd. and Another, has directed the promoter to register the residential project known as “Krish Seasons” as an ongoing project...

Every metro station changes more than a commute. It changes the value of land, the economics of neighbourhoods and increasingly, the legal rights and obligations attached to them.

The High Court of Delhi, through its judgment dated 18.05.2026 in the matter of M/s R.C. Sood & Co. Developers Pvt. Ltd. v. Sharad Maheshwari & Anr., dismissed an appeal challenging the decree of District Judge directing refund of INR 18,00,000/- to the purchasers in a real estate dispute arising out of cancellation of a villa allotment and alleged forfeiture of earnest money.

Buying or leasing property in India involves substantial financial commitment and long-term consequences. Many buyers focus on price and location while overlooking a critical safeguard...

The Government of Maharashtra has taken a significant step towards enhancing ease of doing business by rationalising the framework governing agricultural land conversion. As per the recent amendment to the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966 (MLRC), notified on 31 December 2025, and the Government Resolution dated 10 February 2026, the requirement of obtaining a separate sanad or non-agricultural permission from the Collector has been abolished for permissible non-agricultural uses under the Development Plan or Regional Plan under the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966 (MRTP).

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recently rationalised the External Commercial Borrowing (ECB) framework and notified the amendments to the existing ECB vide the Foreign Exchange Management (Borrowing and Lending) (First Amendment) Regulations, 2026 (Amendment Regulations).