The Supreme Court will hear on Monday, a suo motu case related to the recent student suicides at IIT Kharagpur and Sharda University. The Bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice R Mahadevan will take up the matter tomorrow. The Apex Court has directed the two institutions to submit their responses on the incidents. The…
Supreme Court judge Justice Surya Kant on Saturday inaugurated the Veer Parivaar Sahayata Yojana 2025, a legal aid service for the defence personnel of the country. The National Legal Services Authority (NALSA), in collaboration with the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh and the Jammu & Kashmir Legal Services Authority, launched the initiative…
The Supreme Court will hear on July 28, the writ petition filed by Allahabad High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma challenging the in-house inquiry committee’s report that indicted him over the alleged recovery of a huge sum of unaccounted cash from his official residence in Delhi. The two-judge Bench of Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Augustine…
In order to protect the mental health of students and decrease the number of student suicides, the Supreme Court has formulated a comprehensive set of guidelines binding on schools, colleges and coaching centres. The Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta passed the order on Friday, while hearing a petition filed by the…
By Adv Shivmani Yadav In courtrooms around the world, the pursuit of justice depends on facts-clear, credible, and convincing. In criminal trials, perhaps no form of evidence carries more weight or promise than that grounded in science. Forensic evidence-whether DNA, fingerprints, blood patterns, digital traces, or ballistic reports-has transformed the legal landscape, offering courts tools…
By Inderjit Badhwar In the lexicon of criminal justice, few phrases are as chilling as “wrongful conviction”. When it happens, it doesn’t merely signal a failure—it exposes a fault line running through the legal, investigative and prosecutorial arms of the state. Our cover story this week, “Justice Derailment,” is a forensic deep-dive into one such…
By Sanjay Raman Sinha In a stunning development that reopens deep wounds from one of India’s deadliest terror attacks, the Supreme Court has stayed the Bombay High Court judgment that had acquitted all 13 men convicted in the 7/11 Mumbai train blasts in 2006. The Maharashtra government had challenged the High Court’s order, which overturned…
The Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) has apprised the Supreme Court that the Election Commission of India (ECI) failed to provide any valid reason for the exclusion of Aadhaar and ration cards from the list of acceptable documents in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. The NGO made the submission…
The Supreme Court will hear on July 28, a petition filed by the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD), challenging the blanket ban on diesel vehicles older than 10 years and petrol vehicles older than 15 years. A three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Bhushan R Gavai will hear the plea…
The Union government has asked the Supreme Court not to reduce the age of consent under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 from 18 to 16 on the grounds that it would create room for abuse and exploitation of adolescent girls, especially by older persons. The Centre made these arguments in…