Supreme Court Daily Round-Up : July 22, 2026

Links to today's reports :Collegium Faces Casual Criticism From Those Unaware Of How Judiciary Functions : CJI Surya KantJJ Act - Murder Is 'Heinous Offence', Not 'Serious Offence'; S 302 IPC Implies Minimum Life Sentence: Supreme Court'Wrong Statement' In Pleadings Not Necessarily A 'False Statement' : Supreme Court Quashes Perjury CaseS. 115 CPC | Revisional Jurisdiction Cannot Be Used...

SCBA Requests Judges To Scrap Sequencing System Or To Show It In Supplementary List

The Supreme Court Bar Association recently reiterated before Supreme Court judges the Bar's longstanding demand for doing away with the hearing sequence of matters. A suggestion to include the sequence in the supplementary cause list was also put forth by the SCBA.Speaking at the felicitation function organized by SCBA on July 21 for the 5 newly appointed judges of the Supreme Court,...

Don't Engage Seniors By Default, Argue Cases Yourself : Justice KV Viswanathan To AoRs

Justice Viswanathan told the Advocates-on-Record to ensure that cases are drafted properly, and keep good communication with the clients.

BCI Decides To Increase Bar Council Seats, Says Those Elected Within Present Strength Mustn't Be Excluded For Women Reservation

The BCI has decided that Returning Officers must revise and republish declared results

Swadeshi Jurisprudence And Colonial Afterlife Of Order XXI

In civil matters, the separation of judgment from enforcement is not a colonial peculiarity. The idea is much older and can be traced at least to Roman law. In classical Roman procedure, a judgment, called the iudicatum, did not enforce itself. Instead, it created a new obligation known as the obligatio iudicati, treated as a debt arising from the judgment itself. If the debtor did not pay...

Consider Increasing Retirement Age Of District Judges To 61 : Supreme Court To States/UTs

The States/UTs have been asked to take a decision in consultation with the respective High Courts.

Prosecution Should Focus On Securing Conviction Than Opposing Bail: Supreme Court Flags Increasing SLPs Against Bail Orders

The Court also raised concerns over lengthy bail orders being written by the High Courts.

Police Registers Case Against Man Who Verbally Abused Kerala High Court Judge

A First Information Report (FIR) has been registered against a man, who had allegedly shouted abusive words against Kerala High Court judge Justice A. Badharudeen.In the FIR registered by the Ernakulam Town North police station, the incident allegedly occurred around 5:22 p.m. on Monday (June 20) near a vegetable shop near Pachalam K.S. Udayan Road.It is alleged that the man was...

Student Protest : SCBA President Vikas Singh Writes To PM & HM Seeking Inquiry Into Police Lathi Charge, Suspension Of Delhi Police Commissioner

Vikas Singh, Senior Advocate and President of the Supreme Court Bar Association, has written a letter to the Office of the Prime Minister and the Union Home Ministry raising issues over the use of disproportionate force by the police during the recent 'Chalo Sansad' protests. He has sought a judicial inquiry into the excesses by the police and immediate action against those police officers...

Lawyers Condemn Delhi Police Violence Against Student Protesters At Jantar Mantar, Seek Accountability

A group of over 650 lawyers, including several senior advocates, has issued a statement condemning the alleged use of force by the Delhi Police against student protesters at Jantar Mantar on July 20, calling the police action an attack on the constitutional values of free expression and the right to dissent.The statement, signed by Senior Advocates Indira Jaising, Raju Ramachandran, Chander...

Bengaluru Court Restrains Publication Of Book Allegedly Defaming Former BJP MP Prathap Simha

A Bengaluru court has recently granted an interim injunction restraining the publication, printing, circulation, sale and distribution of the book titled 'Kattale Jagattu Prathap Simharige Ticket Thappalu Karanavada Ghathaka Kathegal' (Dark World: Stories of Incidents That Caused Prathap Simha to Lose Ticket), authored by Praveen Kumar Mavinkadu.The Court of the 1st Additional Civil...

Delhi High Court Hears PIL Alleging Excessive Force By Police During CJP's 'Sansad Chalo' March [LIVE UPDATES]

Delhi High Court allows urgent listing for today of PIL alleging excessive use of force by Delhi Police during Cockroach Janta Party's protest march. The PILs alleging police brutality on students protestors will be heard by Court after lunch. Chief Justice says PIL against forceful removal of activist Sonam Wangchuk will also be heard together.Follow this page for live...