Relying on the investigation by Indian Express, the petition under Article 32 alleges that the CEC Gyanesh Kumar exercised the Commission’s collective powers without knowledge or approval of the other Election Commissioners
Bench headed by CJI Surya Kant refuses to restrain him from functioning or to insist on unanimous EC decisions for now, and seeks replies from the Centre, the Election Commission and the Commissioners.
Taking suo motu cognisance of the Delhi NCR rape cases, Justices Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran asked Delhi Police and the Union government to answer for systemic failures and ordered interim safety measures within four weeks.
Justice Shakdher found the exception arbitrary, Justice Hari Shankar upheld it, and the Supreme Court now has a batch of petitions while Parliament has ignored the Verma Committee since 2013
The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended Chief Justices Sunita Agarwal, D.K. Upadhyaya and Aparesh Kumar Singh for elevation, and Justice Singh would now sit junior to a judge he once outranked.
A Solicitor General’s stray word about ‘Naxalites’ turned a courtroom argument about a penal law’s vagueness into a question about the petitioner’s character instead.
In an open letter to the Chief Justice of India, the Lawyers Association for Constitution has pointed out that out-of-turn listing and muted hearing in the Noida DM's case set a troubling precedent for judicial transparency.