Excess Salary Paid By Mistake Can Be Recovered From Employees Who Gave Undertaking: Supreme Court Dismisses Teachers' Plea

The Supreme Court has recently upheld the recovery of Academic Grade Pay benefits that were given by mistake to the teachers of the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Calicut, holding that the recovery was valid because the teachers had given written undertakings to refund excess payments.A bench of Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Sheel Nagu ruled so while dismissing the appeals...

Bench Clerk's Experience Can't Be Treated As Equal To Law Clerk's For Judicial Service : Supreme Court

The Court observed that the experience of a bench clerk was “ministerial” and not “intellectual”, unlike that of a law clerk.

S.72 BSA | Courts Must Compare Signatures Themselves, Expert Evidence Cannot Be Called Routinely In Handwriting Disputes: Supreme Court

Courts have full discretion to seek expert opinion only when there is doubt or the writing is smudged, vague, or very light, the Supreme Court clarified.

Supreme Court 7-Judge Bench Disposes Reference On Legislative Privilege As Infructuous

The Supreme Court today closed the 7-judge reference on the issue of legislative privileges vis-a-vis free speech, noting that the 2003 resolution of the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly, which was the trigger for the case, was withdrawn in 2004.A bench comprising CJI Surya Kant, Justice Aravind Kumar, Justice PK Mishra, Justice Joymalya Bagchi, Justice Vipul Pancholi, Justice Shree...

Punjab Govt Moves Supreme Court Against HC Order For CBI Probe Into Corruption Allegations Linked To Chief Minister's Office

The Punjab government has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Punjab and Haryana High Court's order directing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to register a criminal case and probe allegations of corruption linked to the office of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.The Special Leave Petition (SLP) was filed by the State government, challenging the order passed by the High Court...

'Courtroom Sees The Case, Academia Sees The Pattern; Justice Needs Both' : CJI Surya Kant At Madhava Menon Memorial Lecture

Chief Justice of India Surya Kant stated that for justice to be wise, it needs both courtroom experience and academic scholarship. This is because while courtrooms pronounce judgments, those don't stay within a file. They go on to work in people's lives long after the file has been closed, and that's where academic scholarship identifies similar patterns in whether justice has truly...

CEC & Election Commissioners Enjoy Greater Legal Immunity Than Even Judges, Remarks Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Monday (October 5) orally observed that the legal protection granted to the Chief Election Commissioner and the Election Commissioners under the 2023 law may be broader than the protection available even to constitutional court judges, during the hearing of petitions challenging the decisions allegedly taken unilaterally by CEC Gyanesh Kumar in connection with the...

LiveLaw Breaking News Alerts: 06 October 2026

LiveLaw is introducing a new feature —'Breaking News Alerts' — designed to keep our readers instantly updated on the most important judicial developments. With real-time coverage of urgent pronouncements and orders from the Supreme Court and High Courts, this feature ensures that critical updates reach you the moment they happen. Whether it's a landmark ruling or an urgent interim...

Supreme Court Daily Round-Up : October 5, 2026

Links to reports of October 5 :Supreme Court Asks Centre To File Affidavit On Space Allotted Under Central Vista Plan For 135 Yr Old LibrarySupreme Court May Close Reference On Legislative Privileges As TN Assembly Resolution Was Withdrawn In 2004Great Nicobar Project: Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain Centre's Challenge To PIL Maintainability, Urges Calcutta HC To Decide SoonSupreme...

Tax Classification Must Be Based On Form Of Goods At Stage Of Sale & Not Its End Use : Supreme Court

"The tax authorities are bound to look at what is supplied and not at what is the 'end use' of the good," the Court said.

Great Nicobar Project | 'Preservation Of Culture Is A Constitutionally Protected Fundamental Right': Justice Joymalya Bagchi

During the hearing of a matter pertaining to the Centre's Great Nicobar Island mega-infrastructure project, Justice Joymalya Bagchi today orally said that preservation of culture is a constitutionally protected fundamental right. A bench of CJI Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana was dealing with the Union's challenge to a Calcutta High Court order, which upheld...

Voter Listed In Electoral Roll Cannot Be Deleted Without Notice Except In Case Of Dead Voter : Justice Ujjal Bhuyan

Supreme Court Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on Sunday emphasised that the name of a voter once entered in the electoral roll cannot be deleted without notice and an opportunity of hearing, except where the voter is deceased.Justice Bhuyan highlighted that Section 22 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 permits deletion of an entry in the voters' list only after the voter has been given...