Supreme Court

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.

Clarifying its earlier order, which was being misconstrued to deny the benefit of no coercive action against student protestors accused in minor offences, the Court also mulled over the possibility of setting up an SIT to investigate police excesses.

The Court directed that no coercive action be taken against protesting students, ordered preservation of CCTV and drone footage, and issued notices to Delhi and six other states over the crackdown.