The Supreme Court on Friday expressed serious concern over nearly 47,000 children remaining untraced across India and issued a series of directions aimed at strengthening the response mechanism in cases involving missing children and human trafficking. The Bench of Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah and Justice R Mahadevan directed police authorities across the country to immediately register…
The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has held a surgeon guilty of gross medical negligence for removing a woman’s healthy left kidney instead of her diseased right kidney, leading to her death. The Bench of President AP Sahi and Member Bharatkumar Pandey awarded a total compensation of Rs 2 crore to the deceased woman’s…
The Supreme Court on Friday questioned whether children of families that have already achieved educational and economic advancement through reservation should continue to avail the benefits of reservation under the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category, observing that such progress also leads to social mobility. The Bench of Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan was…
The Supreme Court on Friday referred to a larger Bench the question concerning the grant of bail under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), seeking to resolve the apparent divergence in judicial opinion on the application of the landmark K.A. Najeeb precedent in cases involving prolonged incarceration and delayed trials. Simultaneously, the Court granted interim…
The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice to journalist Saurav Das and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Gopal Rai in a criminal contempt petition alleging that they participated in a coordinated social media campaign against Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma during the pendency of proceedings in the Delhi Excise Policy case. The Division Bench of…
The Kerala High Court has urged the State government to explore the possibility of declaring nursing services as an essential service in view of the ongoing strike by private hospital nurses across the State, observing that uninterrupted healthcare services are of paramount importance to the public. The single-judge Bench of Justice P Gopinath made these…
The Supreme Court has recalled its April 2025 order directing petitioners challenging various Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments laws in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Puducherry to approach the respective High Courts. The Bench of Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma allowed review petitions filed against the earlier order and restored the…
The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday directed that a second post-mortem examination of Twisha Sharma, who died under mysterious circumstances at her matrimonial home in Bhopal, be conducted by a team of doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. The single-judge Bench of Justice Avanindra Kumar Singh, however, clarified…
The Delhi High Court has appointed Senior Advocate Rajdipa Behura as amicus curiae to assist the Court in contempt proceedings arising from remarks and social media content allegedly targeting Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma by several leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), including former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The appointment was made by the…
The Supreme Court on Friday recorded the statement made by the Union Government that certain individuals allegedly deported to Bangladesh would be brought back to India for verification of their claims of Indian citizenship. Recording the submission, the Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipul M Pancholi…