[ Supreme Court ]
A bench of Justices S.V.N. Bhatti and Vijay Bishnoi holds that Regulation 10 of Canara Bank’s 1976 Regulations gives management discretion, not an obligation, to hold common disciplinary proceedings against co-accused officers.
2026-05-16 · 7 min read
[ Supreme Court ]
A bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and S.V.N. Bhatti held that IIIT Allahabad could not impose a contractual appointment on a candidate selected through a regular recruitment process without recording any reason.
2026-05-14 · 7 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 Allahabad High Court has set aside a single judge's direction to revise the CLAT-UG 2026 merit list, holding that the Consortium of National Law Universities' two-tier expert review of the answer key cannot be displaced unless a manifest error is shown on the face of the record.
2026-05-11 · 6 min read
[ The Republic ]
Kesavananda was conceived to defend the Constitution against a Parliament that had begun to amend it at will. Fifty years later, the doctrine has done its job — and a good deal more.
2026-05-10 · 7 min read
[ Supreme Court ]
A unanimous nine-judge bench overruled six decades of precedent, holding that the right to privacy inheres in every person as an intrinsic part of Article 21 and the freedoms guaranteed by Part III.
2026-05-10 · 9 min read
[ Supreme Court ]
A bench of Justices J. Chelameswar and R.F. Nariman unanimously held that Section 66A's core terms — "grossly offensive," "annoyance," "inconvenience" — lacked any manageable standard and swept far beyond the permissible restrictions on free speech under Article 19(2).
2026-05-10 · 11 min read