[ Supreme Court ]
A Division Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta reverses the Gauhati High Court, holding that Assam cannot deny regularisation to workers left out of its own 2005 Cabinet decision through clerical lapses, as such exclusion violates Article 14.
2026-05-22 · 9 min read
[ Supreme Court ]
A bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and Prasanna B. Varale held that general accusations against a group, absent specific individual acts, cannot compel an accused to face trial.
2026-05-20 · 7 min read
[ High Courts ]
Justice M.A. Abdul Hakhim upholds the right of three Oil Marketing Companies to transfer LPG customers between distributors, rejecting claims of legitimate expectation, promissory estoppel, and constitutional violation.
2026-05-19 · 8 min read
[ The Republic ]
The Supreme Court reviews equality challenges through three different tests — classification, arbitrariness, and proportionality. They emerged at different moments and answer different questions. Half a century in, the Court still has not said which one governs.
2026-05-12 · 23 min read
[ High Courts ]
A division bench of the Jharkhand High Court, led by Chief Justice M.S. Sonak with Justice Rajesh Shankar, has dismissed twenty Letters Patent Appeals filed by SC, ST, BC-I and BC-II candidates who failed to enter the particulars of their State-format caste certificates in JPSC and JSSC online application forms by the prescribed cut-off date and were consequently treated as general-category candidates.
2026-05-12 · 6 min read
[ High Courts ]
A Division Bench of the Himachal Pradesh High Court has upheld Para 5.5 of the State's Sub-Scheme for CBSE Affiliated Schools of Excellence, holding that creation of a dedicated CBSE Teachers Sub-Cadre and selection of in-service teachers by written test and counselling is a valid policy choice that does not violate Articles 14 or 16.
2026-05-12 · 6 min read
[ High Courts ]
A division bench at Srinagar held that long-standing Nazool lessees at Kothibagh were lawful occupants governed by the 1981 Government Order, not the struck-down Roshni Act, and directed parity with Hotel Ahdoos within three months.
2026-05-11 · 6 min read
[ High Courts ]
A division bench of the Karnataka High Court has quashed a 2025 State circular that excluded transgender candidates from applying to constabulary posts under the Reserve Police Constabulary recruitment, holding that the circular was inconsistent with NALSA and with the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019.
2026-05-10 · 3 min read