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A Bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant declined to disturb the core reasoning of its May 2025 ruling on judicial recruitment, but eased the practice requirement from three years to one, layering in institutional training and structured clerkship.

The panel, headed by former Supreme Court judge R. Subhash Reddy, will examine allegations ranging from the use of pellet guns and lathi charges to surveillance and violence against female protesters, alongside counter-allegations of property damage and injuries to police personnel.

In Abeda Salim Tadvi v. Union of India, the CJI-led Bench appointed nodal counsel to consolidate issues and parties to share documents through a common portal, while a fraught exchange over the locus of two mothers who lost their children saw the Bench shut down the debate for the day.

A nine-judge bench, by majority, has refined but not overturned the triple test in Bangalore Water Supply for what counts as an ‘industry’ under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.

Hours after the Bar Council of India withdrew its directions against NALSAR’s 2026 batch, the Supreme Court took up the matter anyway as the CJI backed the students’ right to protest even though the protest was against him.

The Supreme Court’s new Report on reforming judicial language treats sanitising vocabulary as a substitute for resolving the status-based rights those very words were built to define, a blind spot in its approach to sensitivity.

The Collegium’s latest recommendations, which do not spell out the reasoning, seek to appoint chief justices across the High Courts of Patna, Calcutta, Bombay, Punjab & Haryana, and possibly, if Justice Sunita Agarwal is elevated to the Supreme Court, the Gujarat High Court as well.

Overturning a seven-year-old trial court acquittal, the Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court sentences Tejpal to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment, ruling his apology emails were admissions of guilt and the prosecutrix’s statement needed no corroboration beyond her own testimony