Banking Laws by B. Dutta, R. P. Shukla and Apurva Shukla is a comprehensive, two-volume reference that consolidates and explains the full corpus of Indian banking legislation, now updated to reflect the changes introduced by The Banking Laws (Amendment) Act, 2025. This edition integrates the statutory text, legislative history, government notifications (including the Gazette notification appointing 1 August 2025 for key provisions), concise commentary, chapter-wise statutory cross-references, and practice-oriented notes to make the complex statutory framework accessible to practitioners, academicians and students.
Key Features:
- Covering statutes such as RBI Act, Banking Regulation Act, SBI Act, Banking Companies (Acquisition & Transfer) Acts etc. with amendments.
- Incorporates the amendments of The Banking Laws (Amendment) Act, 2025 and the Central Government's commencement notification (S.O. 3494(E), 29 July 2025).
- Section-by-section commentary explaining legislative intent, scope, and practical impact on banking operations and governance.
- Consolidated schedule of consequential amendments, transitional provisions and saving clauses.
- Select case-law summaries and citations that interpret amended provisions (with references to leading judgments).
- Practice aids: precedents, specimen forms/notices, checklists for compliance, internal governance templates and board reporting outlines.
- Tables, flowcharts and quick-reference checklists for regulatory actions, investigatory steps and depositor protection mechanisms.
- Comprehensive index and consolidated list of notifications, circulars and Gazette references cited in the text.
This two-volume set is intended for banking & financial sector lawyers, in-house compliance and risk officers, bank executives, regulators, judicial officers, law teachers, postgraduate students of banking/financial regulation and libraries requiring an authoritative, up-to-date statutory commentary on Indian banking law.