Know Your Rights

Every workplace in India with 10 or more employees is legally required to have an Internal Complaints Committee. Here's what the POSH Act, 2013 protects you from and how to file a complaint.

You have a legal right to compensation for defective goods, deficient services, unfair trade practices, and misleading advertisements. Here's what the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 gives you.

Your rights as a tenant in India depend on whether your state has a Rent Control Act. Here's the framework, what protects you from arbitrary eviction, and what remedies you have.

A dishonoured cheque is both a criminal offence under Section 138 NI Act and a civil breach. Here's the timeline, your options, and the deadlines that make or break a case.

India has dedicated online and phone channels for cyber crime, plus statutory protections under the IT Act and BNS. Here's what qualifies, where to file, and what evidence to preserve.

Domestic violence isn't only physical. The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 covers physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, and economic abuse — with civil remedies including protection orders, residence orders, and monetary relief.

The essentials every private-sector employee in India should know: when you qualify for gratuity, how it's calculated, your maternity leave entitlements under the new labour codes, and what your employer can and cannot do at termination.

Divorce under Hindu law is either contested (on statutory grounds like cruelty or desertion) or by mutual consent. Here's what each path involves, how long it actually takes, and what the six-month "cooling-off" period really means.

Since the 2005 amendment (and clinched by the Supreme Court's Vineeta Sharma judgment in 2020), daughters are coparceners in ancestral property with the same rights as sons — regardless of whether their father was alive on 9 September 2005.

How to file an RTI application, what information you can demand, what is exempt, and what to do if your PIO refuses or delays.

Bailable vs. non-bailable offences, anticipatory bail, default bail, and undertrial release under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023 — which replaced the CrPC from 1 July 2024.

How property passes after death under the Hindu Succession Act, Muslim Personal Law, and the Indian Succession Act. Wills, intestate succession, legal heir certificates, and mutation.

E-challans, DL suspension, fitness certificates, accident compensation under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (as amended 2019).

Your rights under RERA when a builder delays possession, misrepresents the project, or refuses a refund. Section 18 refunds, compensation, and how to file a complaint.