[ High Courts ]
Rajasthan High Court held that two Bangladeshi approvers in an illegal kidney transplantation case could not remain in custody after their statements were recorded, when all principal accused had already been bailed out.
2026-05-22 · 8 min read
[ Supreme Court ]
A Division Bench sets aside a Special Court's cognizance order under PMLA, holding the first proviso to BNSS Section 223(1) is mandatory and its breach renders proceedings void.
2026-05-21 · 8 min read
[ Supreme Court ]
A three-judge bench upholds pan-India directions barring re-release of stray dogs into institutional premises, reading ABC Rules 2023 harmoniously with the parent statute and Article 21.
2026-05-20 · 9 min read
[ Supreme Court ]
A Division Bench led by Justice Ujjal Bhuyan holds that K.A. Najeeb remains binding law and that prolonged pre-trial detention under the UAP Act cannot be sustained by invoking Section 43-D(5) alone.
2026-05-20 · 10 min read
[ High Courts ]
A transman with intact reproductive organs was denied oocyte cryopreservation by an ART clinic citing the ART Act; the Kerala High Court ordered an ART bank to proceed, grounding the right in Article 21.
2026-05-19 · 9 min read
[ High Courts ]
Justice Mohd Yousuf Wani admitted Dr. Abdul Majeed Bhat to bail after five months in custody, finding the charge under Section 62/64 BNS did not attract the Section 480 BNSS embargo and that no compelling custodial need remained once the challan had been filed and trial commenced.
2026-05-18 · 7 min read
[ Dissent ]
On 28 September 2018 a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court refused by 2:1 to constitute an SIT into the Bhima Koregaon arrests. Justice D.Y. Chandrachud dissented. A reading of his 41-paragraph opinion on fair investigation, Article 32, and the boundary between dissent and incitement.
2026-05-15 · 14 min read
[ Supreme Court ]
A Division Bench of Justices Pardiwala and Bhuyan quashed a 1989 police-mess assault case, then directed Allahabad High Court to furnish comprehensive undertrial pendency data for Uttar Pradesh.
2026-05-13 · 9 min read
[ The Republic ]
The Constituent Assembly looked at American due process in 1948 and refused it after Frankfurter himself counselled against it. Thirty years later the Supreme Court read it back into the Constitution and forty years on, Indian scholarship is still pretending the borrowing did not happen.
2026-05-12 · 22 min read
[ Supreme Court ]
A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta held that extending the investigation period under UAPA without producing the accused or recording reasons violates Article 21, and ordered the appellant's release on default bail.
2026-05-12 · 4 min read
[ High Courts ]
A division bench of the Bombay High Court has directed UIDAI to process fresh Aadhaar enrollment for two Pune brothers stranded by a years-long biometric mismatch, and laid down eight systemic directions to prevent genuine residents from being shunted between offices without a written, time-bound remedy.
2026-05-12 · 6 min read
[ High Courts ]
Justice Tushar Rao Gedela has restrained 45 named and unknown defendants and directed Meta, YouTube and X to take down 73 listed URLs, after the Shark Tank India judge complained of unauthorised merchandise, AI chatbots impersonating him, deepfake pornography and fake booking listings.
2026-05-12 · 5 min read