President Droupadi Murmu approved three new Supreme Court judges, raising the bench to 37 members and sparking debate over seniority and transparency in the selection process.
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A deputy inspector general of prisons in Karnataka was detained after investigators linked him to a 2018 scheme that used counterfeit Supreme Court documents to release a convicted murderer and involved alleged sexual exploitation.
During an Oct. 5 hearing, the Supreme Court observed that the 2023 law may grant the Chief Election Commissioner and other commissioners broader legal protection than that enjoyed by Supreme Court judges.
The Supreme Court refused to entertain the Union's challenge to a Calcutta High Court order that upheld a public interest litigation alleging Forest Rights Act violations in the Great Nicobar mega‑project.
Former Supreme Court judge Rohinton Nariman criticised the Election Commission’s handling of West Bengal voter rolls and called for an urgent Supreme Court ruling on the 2023 CEC appointment law.
Kapil Sibal says a proposed briefing of sitting Supreme Court judges by a joint parliamentary committee on the One Nation, One Election bills breaches the separation of powers.
The Supreme Court set aside the Uttar Pradesh government's preventive detention of Mulla Afroz under the National Security Act and ordered a Rs 10 lakh cost on the state.
The Supreme Court has ordered early listing of a petition that asks for the suspension of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and a declaration that the Election Commission must act as a multi‑member body.
The Election Commission told the Supreme Court that over 3.7 million SIR appeals remain pending and argued that the roll revisions did not affect the outcome in 31 contested seats.
On September 25 the Supreme Court reduced Meeran Haider's bail attendance requirement to once a week and exempted him from appearing on his wedding dates, while keeping other restrictions intact.