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Supreme Court Rejects Ex-IPS Officer Sanjiv Bhatt's Plea To Suspend Sentence In Drug Planting Case Of 1996
The Supreme Court on Thursday (December 11) refused to suspend the 20-year jail sentence imposed on ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in the 1996 drug planting case.The case was listed today before a bench of Justices JK Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi. Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal (for Bhatt) at the outset submitted that he has undergone 7 years and 3 months of sentence. The bench said that Bhatt can...
Supreme Court Clarifies That Women's Representation Rule Applies To All Bar Associations In Gujarat
The Supreme Court has clarified that its earlier order directing mandatory representation for women in Bar Associations will apply uniformly to all Bar Associations across Gujarat, regardless of their nomenclature.In an order passed on 8 December 2025, a Bench led by the Chief Justice of India Surya Kant stated that the direction issued on 9 May 2025, requiring assured representation for...
Business Law Daily Round-Up: December 10, 2025
TAXSubway Franchisee Hiked Base Prices To Neutralise ITC Loss, Amounted To Profiteering; 18% Interest Can't Apply Retrospectively: GSTATSupplying AI-Powered IT Infra Services, Content To USA Corp By Indian Counterpart Is 'Export' Not 'Intermediary' : Gujarat High Court"₹41664 Crores ITC Fraud Via Non-Existing Entities, Fake Invoices": Centre Flags Rising GST Evasion In Rajya...
Contempt Power Not A Personal Armour For Judges Or Sword To Silence Criticism : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has underscored that the power to punish for contempt is not a tool to silence critics or shield judges from scrutiny, declaring that contempt jurisdiction must never become a personal armour for the judiciary. Emphasising that the authority to punish necessarily carries the power to forgive, the Court said mercy must remain central to the judicial conscience when a...
Supreme Court Directs States & UTs To Ensure Deployment Of Para Legal Volunteers & Support Persons Under POCSO Act
The Supreme Court recently directed all States and Union Territories to take steps to deploy Para Legal Volunteers at police stations and to appoint support persons under Section 39 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.A bench of Justice B.V. Nagarathna and Justice K.V. Viswanathan passed the order in a petition filed by Bachpan Bachao Andolan raising issues related...
CJI Surya Kant Reconstitutes Supreme Court's Artificial Intelligence Committee; Justice PS Narasimha To Lead
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant has reconstituted the Supreme Court's “Artificial Intelligence Committee”, assigning it the task of guiding the adoption, development, and deployment of artificial intelligence tools across the Supreme Court and the subordinate judiciary.The reconstituted committee will be chaired by Justice P. S. Narasimha, Judge of the Supreme Court of India. Its...
Supreme Court Daily Round-Up : December 10, 2025
Links to today's reports : Will It Be Beyond ECI's Jurisdiction To Inquire Into Citizenship In Doubtful Cases? Supreme Court Asks In SIR PleasSupreme Court Sets Aside Bombay HC's Contempt Sentence Imposed On Person Over 'Dog Mafia' Comment Against JudgesSupreme Court Asks Orissa High Court To Decide Cases Which Stayed Recovery Of Illegal Mining Dues By March 31, 2026No Civil Remedies Against...
Telangana Phone-Tapping Case | Ex-Intelligence Chief Withholding iCloud Accounts Despite Order: State Tells Supreme Court
The State of Telangana today told the Supreme Court that former intelligence chief T Prabhakar Rao, accused of phone tapping of politicians and high court judges during the term of the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi-led Government in Telangana, was still not cooperating with the investigation.“He has done paper cooperation. Either the devices are not opening or they have been wiped out. So...
S. 29A Arbitration Act | Arbitrator's Mandate Terminates On Expiry Of Time; Substituted Arbitrator Must Resume After Extension : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (December 10) held that once the statutory 18-month period for delivering an arbitral award expires, the arbitrator's mandate automatically comes to an end as per Section 29A(4) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, when no application for extension is made. Therefore, when an extension of time is granted by the Court after the mandate of the arbitrator...
Police Can Freeze Bank Accounts Invoking S.102 CrPC In Cases Under Prevention Of Corruption Act : Supreme Court
In an important ruling, the Supreme Court on Wednesday (December 10) ruled that the police/investigating agencies are empowered to freeze the bank account of a person under Section 102 Code of Criminal Procedure (now Section 106 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita)., against whom a proceeding is initiated under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (“PC Act”).Dismissing...