oath as Supreme court judges
Appointments & TransfersNews

The Judges were recommended for elevation by the Collegium on 25-8-2025 and in a record display of speed, the Ministry of Law and Justice confirmed the recommendations on 27-8-2025.

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ACJs of Bombay HC & Patna HC
Appointments & TransfersNews

Appointments for Acting Chief Justices for Bombay and Patna High Courts were made in consequence of their Chief Justices being elevated to the Supreme Court.

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14 Advocates appointed as Additional Judges
Appointments & TransfersNews

The Supreme Court Collegium on 19-8-2025 had recommended the names of 14 Advocates as Additional Judges of Bombay High Court.

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reconsideration of death sentence under Art. 32
Case BriefsSupreme Court

In a significant decision, a 3-Judge Bench of the Supreme Court explored the contours of Article 32 of the Constitution to answer whether death sentence which has attained finality, can be revisited at all?

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Justice Alok Aradhe Justice Vipul M. Pancholi appointed SC Judges
Appointments & TransfersNews

The Supreme Court Collegium on 25-8-2025, recommended the appointed of the 2 High Court Chief Justices as Supreme Court Judges.

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Transfer of 14 HC Judges
Appointments & TransfersNews

The Collegium led by CJI B.R. Gavai made the transfer/repatriation recommendations in meetings held on 25/26-8-2025.

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contractual Assistant Professors
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The Court found it disturbing that Assistant professors appointed on contractual basis during 2011 to 2025 continued to draw monthly salary of Rs. 30,000.

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blow with school bag not Child Abuse
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“The offence of “child abuse” cannot be attracted to every trivial or isolated incident involving a child, but must necessarily co-relate with acts involving cruelty, exploitation, deliberate ill-treatment, or conduct intended to cause harm”.

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9 Permanent Judges for 2 HCs
Appointments & TransfersNews

The Collegium recommended appointing 6 Permanent Judges for Bombay High Court and 3 Permanent Judges for Kerala High Court.

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Justice Shree Chandrashekhar
Appointments & TransfersNews

Justice Shree Chandrashekhar’s parent High Court is Jharkhand High Court. He was thereafter transferred to Rajasthan High Court and then to Bombay High Court,

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appointment of 2 new SC Judges
Appointments & TransfersNews

At present, the working strength of the Supreme Court is at 32 Judges, if the recommendations are confirmed, then the Court will function at its full strength of 34 Judges.

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organisation not banned under UAPA
Case BriefsSupreme Court

Karnataka High Court had granted bail to one accused after finding that he was associated with organisations not banned under UAPA; however, the 2nd accused person’s bail was rejected as he was involved with banned terror outfits.

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Renukaswamy murder case Darshan
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“Article 14 of the Constitution guarantees equality before the law and prohibits arbitrariness. It mandates that all persons — regardless of their popularity, power, or privilege — are equally subject to the law”.

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Rapido Misleading ads 5 min auto guarantee Rapido
Case BriefsTribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

“Rapido had engaged in a practice calculated to mislead consumers by both commission and omission overstating its actual service capability while concealing qualifying conditions for the purpose of promoting its business”.

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rickshaws in Matheran
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The Court opined that continuing such an inhuman practice even after 78 years of the country getting its freedom and after 75 years of the Constitution being enacted and promising social and economic justice to its citizens, would be betraying the promise given by the people of India to themselves.

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regularisation of Class III & IV employees
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“Ad-hocism thrives where administration is opaque and the State Departments must keep and produce accurate establishment registers, muster rolls and outsourcing arrangements, and must explain, with evidence, why they prefer precarious engagement over sanctioned posts where the work is perennial”.

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Collegium recommends 17 names for 2 HCs
Appointments & TransfersNews

On 19-8-2025, the Collegium recommended 3 Judges as Permanent & Additional Judges of Gauhati High Court and 14 Advocates as Judges of Bombay High Court.

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Ramesh Kumari
Appointments & TransfersNews

On 7-8-2025, the Supreme Court Collegium led by CJI B.R. Gavai, recommended the appointment of Ramesh Kumari, Judicial Officer, as a High Court Additional Judge.

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applicability of Limitation Act
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“The compliance as required to be done by the tenant in Section 7(1)(a)(b)(c) and first part of Section 7(2) of the WBPT Act regarding deposit of rent and filing an application within the same time is mandatory”.

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posh Act compliance
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“It is the duty of an employer to ensure that in a workplace an Internal Complaints Committee is constituted in terms of Section 4 of the POSH Act. It is hence the responsibility of the Labour Department to ensure that the Internal Complaints Committee is constituted by every employer of a workplace”.

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