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The Dentons Link Legal White Collar Crime & Investigations Newsletter examines recent enforcement actions, judicial developments, and regulatory updates shaping India's white collar crime landscape. This edition covers major cases involving the Enforcement Directorate and CBI, landmark Supreme Court rulings on PMLA procedures, and significant international enforcement developments including the Adani Group matter and UK's first DPA in five years.

Welcome to the latest edition of DSK Legal’s White-Collar Crime & Corporate Investigations Newsletter, where we analyze key legal developments shaping financial crime, regulatory enforcement, and corporate compliance.

This comprehensive legal newsletter from DSK Legal covers critical developments across multiple practice areas for July 2026, including capital markets, competition law, dispute resolution, employment regulations, infrastructure and energy sector updates, international trade policies, media and entertainment law, restructuring and insolvency matters, sports and gaming regulations, technology law, and white-collar crime enforcement. The newsletter provides expert analysis and insights to help legal professio

The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, in Dineshchand Surana v UCO Bank, 2026 INSC 579 acting through a Bench comprising Justice J.B. Pardiwala and Justice K.V. Viswanathan, examined the interplay between the moratorium provisions under Part III of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 and proceedings for dishonour of cheque under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881.

India’s digital payments landscape / ecosystem has grown exponentially and at a pace that regulators struggled to match. The rules governing automatic recurring charges remained scattered across multiple directives issued at different times.

To put it simply, the question at hand is whether the ED can proceed only against property linked to criminal activity relating to a scheduled offence, or whether it can also move against untainted assets of corresponding value where the original tainted property is no longer traceable.

The Supreme Court of India ("Supreme Court") in the case of State Bank of India vs. Amit Iron Private Limited has clarified that borrowers do not have a vested right to a personal or oral hearing before their loan accounts are classified as fraud under the fraud directions issued by the Reserve Bank of India ("RBI").

The evolution of India’s insolvency framework from a fragmented and largely creditor-unfriendly regime to the consolidated structure under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (“IBC”) has significantly reshaped the risk landscape for company directors, particularly in periods of financial distress.

India's digital payments story has been extraordinary. In two decades, India moved from RTGS and paper cheques to Unified Payments Interface processing nearly half of the world's real-time transactions.