“What you are starting to see across multiple jurisdictions is an administrative approach to bypassing the consent provision. What I fear is that it has become an illegal administrative practice of implementing the consent provision without adhering to procedure and law, and that is something we should be worried about,”

Arpitha Kodiveri · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-16

Kodiveri says bypassing consent provisions has become an illegal administrative practice across multiple jurisdictions.