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Supreme Court Cancels Bail of Two Co-Accused, Upholds Refusal of Bail to Yash Gaikwad in Satara Murder Prosecution
The Supreme Court set aside bail granted to two co-accused and upheld refusal of bail to Yash Mahesh Gaikwad after finding that the lower courts had inadequately addressed material circumstances supporting a prima facie…
SUPREME COURT · 8 Oct 2026Supreme Court Recasts Three-Year Bar-Practice Rule for Civil Judge Recruitment, Creates Transitional Training-and-Clerkship Path
A 2:1 Supreme Court majority preserved the need for practical court exposure before independent judicial work but modified how the restored three-year requirement operates. Fresh graduates remain eligible under a transit…
SUPREME COURT · 8 Oct 2026Supreme Court Upholds Two-Year Bar Sanction Over Televised Disclosure of Former Client’s Confidences
The Supreme Court has upheld a Bar Council of India disciplinary order against advocate Rizwan Siddhiquee, holding that client confidences cannot be used against a former client merely because the relationship has turned…
SUPREME COURT · 8 Oct 2026Supreme Court sets timelines for long-delayed Vaniyambadi railway subway, praises sustained civic pursuit
The Supreme Court disposed of a citizen's appeal over the long-pending Level Crossing No. 81 project at Vaniyambadi after recording concrete implementation commitments from the State authorities and Southern Railway. It…
SUPREME COURT · 8 Oct 2026Yamuna Floodplain Case: Supreme Court Finds Causation Unproved, Sets Aside NGT Liability Against Festival Organiser
The Supreme Court set aside the National Green Tribunal's 2017 liability findings against Vyakti Vikas Kendra India over the 2016 World Culture Festival, holding that the evidence did not reliably establish that the orga…
SUPREME COURT · 8 Oct 2026Supreme Court restores R.J. Gajendra Kumar’s eligibility for Tourism promotion, rejects retrospective disqualification by later qualification norms
The Supreme Court held that Tamil Nadu could not use later changes to educational-equivalence rules to reopen a long-standing, regularised feeder-post promotion and deny R.J. Gajendra Kumar consideration for promotion as…
SUPREME COURT · 8 Oct 2026Supreme Court Restores Karimganj Election Petition, Says Form 25 Copy Defect Cannot Sink Entire Challenge
The Supreme Court restored Hafiz Rashid Ahmed Choudhury’s challenge to Kripanath Mallah’s 2024 election from Karimganj, holding that the true-copy stamps satisfied Section 81(3) and that a defect in the served Form 25 af…
SUPREME COURT · 8 Oct 2026Supreme Court Enforces Wife’s Matrimonial Settlement Against Renewed DV Monetary Claims, Preserves Adult Daughter’s Independent Remedy
The Supreme Court held that a wife who voluntarily relinquished monetary and maintenance claims in a matrimonial settlement and reaffirmed that position before the Family Court could not revive the same pre-settlement cl…
SUPREME COURT · 23 Aug 2026Supreme Court Restores Plaint, Defers Court-Fee Question Where Joint Possession Is Pleaded
The Supreme Court held that a civil plaint pleading joint possession could not be rejected at the threshold for non-payment of ad-valorem court fee merely because the plaintiffs also sought separate possession. It restor…
SUPREME COURT · 23 Aug 2026Supreme Court quashes SC/ST Act counts where school-room allegations did not show “public view”
The Supreme Court held that the prosecution material against Ramkrishna Chauhan did not prima facie satisfy Sections 3(1)(r) and 3(1)(s) of the SC/ST Act because the alleged caste-based abuse was placed inside an enclose…
SUPREME COURT · 23 Aug 2026Supreme Court Draws Jurisdictional Line: Appropriate Authority, Not Police, Investigates PCPNDT Offences
The Supreme Court has held that offences created by the PCPNDT Act must be investigated through its specialised Appropriate Authority mechanism, with police confined to supplemental assistance in that field while remaini…
SUPREME COURT · 23 Aug 2026Supreme Court: State Cannot Reopen Eligibility When Service Rules Make Public Service Commission’s Decision Final
The Supreme Court held that selection by a Public Service Commission does not itself create an indefeasible right to appointment, but where a statutory rule makes the Commission’s eligibility decision final, the appointi…
SUPREME COURT · 23 Aug 2026Nine-Judge Bench Refines 'Industry' Test 5:4, but Keeps Bangalore Water Supply Rule for All Pending ID Act Cases
The Supreme Court's nine-judge Bench revisited the long-running definition-of-'industry' controversy under Section 2(j) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. A 5:4 aggregate majority favoured refining aspects of the 1978…
SUPREME COURT · 23 Aug 2026Section 156(3) Rejection Is No Res Judicata Bar to a Later FIR, Supreme Court Rules
The Supreme Court has held that a Magistrate’s refusal to direct investigation under Section 156(3) CrPC does not decide the allegations on their merits or extinguish the police’s independent duty to register an FIR when…
SUPREME COURT · 22 Aug 2026Supreme Court acquits Gujarat panchayat officials, says ₹20 recovery cannot cure failure to prove bribe demand
The Supreme Court set aside concurrent corruption convictions of a Talati-cum-Mantri and a panchayat peon, holding that the prosecution had not proved the alleged bribe demand beyond reasonable doubt; without that founda…
SUPREME COURT · 22 Aug 2026Supreme Court: Lok Adalat Settlement Cannot Bind Rival Land Claimants Who Never Consented
The Supreme Court set aside a Telangana High Court ruling that had sustained sixteen Lok Adalat awards in a land-acquisition compensation dispute, holding that rival claimants who were not parties or signatories could no…
SUPREME COURT · 22 Aug 2026Supreme Court Quashes Abetment-of-Suicide FIR Against In-Laws; Resort to Legal Proceedings Is Not Instigation by Itself
The Supreme Court held that an FIR, a maintenance notice or other lawful proceedings do not, without a specific act of instigation, conspiracy or intentional aid, establish abetment of suicide. Finding that neither the F…
SUPREME COURT · 22 Aug 2026Supreme Court sets aside suo motu sentence enhancement, directs Gopi’s life and fixed-term sentences to run concurrently
The Supreme Court held that Gopi could not be placed in a worse sentencing position through his own appeal when no State, victim or complainant had sought enhancement. It also applied the Constitution Bench rule in Muthu…
SUPREME COURT · 22 Aug 2026Supreme Court rejects belated challenge to Delhi school sports tenders, leaves local-office clause validity open
The Supreme Court dismissed challenges to five Delhi government Sports Equipment Tenders after finding that the bidders waited until the procurement had substantially advanced. It stressed that facial tender conditions m…
SUPREME COURT · 22 Aug 2026Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Hanging, Keeps Door Open for Future Evidence-Based Review
The Supreme Court declined to reopen the settled constitutional position permitting hanging as the statutory method of executing a death sentence, holding that the record did not displace the larger-Bench precedent in De…
SUPREME COURT · 22 Aug 2026Supreme Court: Extra Insurance Risk Cannot Attach Before Additional Premium Under Section 64VB
The Supreme Court allowed New India Assurance’s appeals, holding that turnover-linked insurance risk beyond the paid-for cover could not be retrospectively attached after the insured event when Section 64VB required prem…
SUPREME COURT · 22 Aug 2026Supreme Court Upholds RPF Discharge for Deliberate Non-Disclosure of Pending Criminal Cases
The Supreme Court dismissed a batch of appeals by RPF/RPSF constable recruits who had knowingly failed to disclose pending criminal cases in their attestation forms, holding that the governing recruitment rules and Avtar…
SUPREME COURT · 21 Aug 2026Supreme Court Quashes Four Haryana PWD Absorptions, Orders Repatriation to Parent Cadre
The Supreme Court held that four Haryana officers could not remain absorbed in the Public Works (Building and Roads) Department through an exceptional appointment-by-transfer route unsupported by genuine special circumst…