LiveLawBiz: Business Law Daily Round-Up: December 02, 2025

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Supreme Court Daily Round-Up : December 2, 2025

Links to today's reports :Karur Stampede Case: Tamil Nadu Govt Urges Supreme Court To Vacate Interim Order Transferring Probe To CBISupreme Court Stays Madhya Pradesh HC Order Questioning Legal Proficiency Of Sessions JudgeSupreme Court Stays Trial Against Ex-Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa In POCSO Act Case'Has Indian Govt Declared Rohingyas As Refugees?Should Intruders Be Given Red Carpet...

160 Criminal Appeals Being Listed Daily : Allahabad High Court To Supreme Court On Steps To Reduce Backlog

The Supreme Court was recently informed that the Allahabad High Court is listing a substantial number of pending criminal appeals each day in an effort to address its backlog. At the High Court's Prayagraj bench, at least 100 criminal appeals are being listed daily from a pending stock of 2,036 cases. At the Lucknow bench, a minimum of 60 criminal appeals are being taken up every day from the...

ECI Cannot Conduct Citizenship Test Under The Guise Of SIR: Petitioners Tell Supreme Court

The petitioners challenging the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process argued before the Supreme Court today that the Election Commission of India has no authority to determine a person's citizenship under the guise of the SIR exercise.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was hearing a batch of pleas assailing the SIR initiated across several...

Supreme Court Directs Reservation Of Five Posts For Women In Upcoming HCBA Nagpur Elections

The Supreme Court yesterday directed reservation of one post of Vice President, the post of Treasurer and three posts of Executive Members in the upcoming elections of the High Court Bar Association, Nagpur will for women members.A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi noted that the office bearers of the Association had agreed to earmark these five posts for women...

Umar Khalid's Speech Played During Bail Hearing; 'These Are Students Who Agitated On Certain Issues', Sibal Tells Supreme Court

Playing accused Umar Khalid's Amravati speech in the open Court today, Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal remarked that advocating for the Gandhian way of civil disobedience can't amount to conspiracy, and no public interest would be served in keeping an academic incarcerated for years for an agitation, which may have raised certain issues, rightly or wrongly. "I ask myself the question. An...

TVK's Negligence, Vijay's Delay & Unruly Cadres Led To Karur Stampede : Tamil Nadu Govt Tells Supreme Court

The Tamil Nadu Government, in an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court, has attributed the Karur stampede tragedy to a series of “reckless, negligent and uncoordinated actions” by the organisers and cadres of the TVK party, led by actor-politician Vijay. The State maintained that the police acted with “exemplary courage and discipline”, and that the tragedy was caused not by...

Supreme Court Allows Kerala Govt To Allot Open Prisons' Land For BrahMos Aerospace

In a PIL pertaining to overcrowding of prisons across India, the Supreme Court today expressed that it will pass directions to ensure that the existing open correctional institutions (OCIs) are adequately utilized by states.The Court also allowed an application filed by the State of Kerala for allotment of 257 acres open prisons land, out of 457 acres, to BrahMos (180 acres), Sashastra Seema...

Can We Accept Your Speeches Won't Constitute 'Terrorist Act' Under UAPA? Supreme Court Asks Sharjeel Imam

During the hearing of the bail pleas in the Delhi riots larger conspiracy case, the Supreme Court questioned some of the speeches made by Sharjeel Imam, one of the accused in the case.The bench asked whether it can be said that those speeches will not constitute incitement and terrorist acts as per the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967.A bench comprising Justice Aravind Kumar and...

NCLAT Reserves Orders On CCI's Plea To Extend Privacy Consent Safeguards To WhatsApp Advertising Data

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Tuesday reserved orders on the Competition Commission of India's plea seeking clarification of its November 4 judgment that struck down the five-year bar on WhatsApp sharing user data with Meta for advertising, after the CCI argued that the tribunal's own reasoning mandated a uniform consent framework covering both advertising...

'Remarkable Coincidence': Supreme Court On Data Regarding Public Contracts Awarded To Arunachal CM's Relatives

In a plea seeking CBI probe into work contracts awarded to Arunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandu and/or his relatives' companies, the Supreme Court today expressed that the difference between the competing tenders for the works appeared to be miniscule and hinted at cartelization.The Court clarified that there was no inclination to order a CBI enquiry as on date and it would first like the State...

'Just & Fair Request': Supreme Court Asks ECI To Consider Further Extending Kerala SIR Deadline

The Supreme Court on Tuesday recommended to the Election Commission of India to further extend the deadline for the submission of enumeration forms in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process of the electoral rolls in Kerala, in view of the ongoing process for local body elections.The bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was informed by the Election Commission of India that...