[ Supreme Court ]
A three-judge bench set aside conviction under the UAPA and IPC, holding that the prosecution had falsely assigned the identity of an absconding accused to an innocent refugee.
2026-05-21 · 9 min read
[ Supreme Court ]
A bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and Atul S. Chandurkar dismisses a bid to elevate an in-court dictation over the digitally signed order, imposing costs for abuse of process.
2026-05-14 · 8 min read
[ High Courts ]
The Supreme Court found Kerala's affidavit on FIR non-registration thoroughly unsatisfactory and directed the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Ernakulam, to appear personally on 15 May 2026.
2026-05-13 · 4 min read
[ Supreme Court ]
A two-judge bench has held that the power under Section 175(3) of the BNSS to direct police to register an FIR cannot be exercised mechanically — the magistrate must record satisfaction that a cognizable offence is disclosed.
2026-05-10 · 3 min read
[ The Republic ]
The Chief Justice's power to constitute benches and assign cases is now treated as plenary. It was not designed to be. The four-judges press conference of 2018 raised the question; eight years on, the power has grown without anyone settling whether it should have.
2026-05-10 · 7 min read