Supreme Court To Hear Plea Seeking OBC Reservation For Pasmanda Muslims

A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking that 'Pasmanda Muslims' should be given reservations under the Other Backward Classes (OBC) Category. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi briefly considered the PIL, filed by one Mohd Waseem Saifi, on Monday, seeking 10% reservation for Pasmanda Muslims by sub-categorizing...

Landowners Not Liable For Construction Delay By Developer : Supreme Court

Merely because the landowner authorizes the developer to construct the flats, obtain sanctions, and sell the flats, it would not make them liable for the delay caused in the construction of the flats by the developer, observed the Supreme Court. A bench comprising Justices PS Narasimha and Alok Aradhe dismissed an appeal filed by a homebuyer, while affirming the NCDRC's decision, which...

2G Case : Supreme Court Asks Telecom Operator To Pay Spectrum Usage Charges From Date Of Judgment Quashing License

The Supreme Court has held a telecom operator, Sistema Shyam Teleservices Limited, liable to pay the reserve price fixed for the November 2012 spectrum auction from February 2, 2012, the date on which the Court quashed the 2G licences, rejecting the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal's (TDSAT) interpretation that the liability arose only from February 15, 2013.A bench of...

Tirpuati Laddu : Supreme Court Refuses To Interfere With AP Govt's One-Man Committee Inquiry Over Ghee Adulteration

The Court noted that the committee was examining administrative lapses and was not overlapping with the criminal investigation.

'Don't Misbehave In My Court, You've Seen Me In Chandigarh' : CJI Surya Kant Warns Advocate

Chief Justice of India Surya Kant today rebuked Advocate Mathews Nedumpara for making reckless submissions and warned him that strict action will be taken if "he continued to misbehave."During the mentioning round, Nedumpara mentioned a petition filed challenging the collegium system and seeking the restoration of the National Judicial Appointments Commission.CJI Surya Kant said that there was...

NEET-PG Cut Off Reduction Won't Affect Doctors' Competence As They Already Qualified MBBS : Centre To Supreme Court

Defending the cutoff reduction for NEET PG 2025, the Centre has submitted before the Supreme Court that NEET-PG does not certify minimum competence, which is established by the MBBS qualification, but is merely a filtering mechanism for allocation of limited postgraduate seats.“NEET-PG is not to certify minimum competence which stands established by the MBBS qualification itself of...

Complete Supreme Court Annual Digest 2025 [Part-V]

Articles 21 and 22 - Requirement to Communicate Grounds of Arrest under Article 22(1) in Warrant-Based and Warrantless Arrests - Held, Article 22(1) is a constitutional safeguard mandating that grounds of arrest be communicated to the arrestee. In warrantless arrests, non-compliance with Article 22(1) renders the arrest illegal, prohibiting further custody. Grounds must pre-exist, be...

Supreme Court Asks MHA Committee To Meet Once In 3 Months To Address Issues Faced By People From North East

The Supreme Court recently asked the Monitoring Committee, set up to address the issues of racial discrimination and other grievances faced by the North-Eastern community, to meet at least once in three months. It has also asked the committee to take cognisance of all issues, including those reported in any newspaper.A bench comprising Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice K Vinod Chandran passed...

UGC Appropriate Authority To Consider Consequences Of Its Orders For Annulment Of Illegal Degrees : Superme Court

The Supreme Court has reiterated that the University Grants Commission(UGC) is the appropriate authority to take a decision on consequences of the UGC's decision to annul a degree. In other words, it is for the UGC, and not the Courts to decide if the students who had studied the course before its annulment should get the benefit of the degree.Following this view, the Supreme Court modified...

Law Firms Generating Unnecessary Litigation By Drafting Confusing Arbitration Clauses Is Professional Misconduct : Supreme Court

Why can’t the terms be simplified to avoid confusion? CJI asked.

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) And Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Monthly Digest: January 2026

SUPREME COURT Supreme Court To Examine If UP Gangsters Act Is Repugnant To Section 111 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Case Details: SIRAJ AHMAD KHAN & ANR. v. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH & ANR.|Writ Petition (Criminal) No.452/2024 The Supreme Court recently asked the State of Uttar Pradesh to respond to the issue of repugnancy between various provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters...

“Widen Law, Make It More Intelligible”: CJI Urges Young Graduates To Keep Law Accessible

At the Eighteenth Convocation Ceremony of National Law University (NLU), Jodhpur on February 21, 2026, the Chief Justice of India urged graduating law students to ensure that the legal system becomes more accessible and understandable, cautioning against allowing law to become an exclusive domain guarded by complexity and jargon.Delivering the convocation address titled “From Fortress to...