#SupremeCourt to continue hearing habeas corpus petition filed by @GitanjaliAngmo seeking to declare detention of @Wangchuk66 illegal under the NSA. @GitanjaliAngmo @Wangchuk66 Judgment likely to be reserved today by a bench comprising Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice PB Varale

#BREAKING CJI Surya Kant speaks against freebies :

Because of freebies, the entire country is...It is hightime States revisit these policies of distributing largesse...this will hamper the economic development of the country...how long this will go? : CJI Surya Kant. What kind of culture are we developing? It is understandable, that as a welfare state, you want to provide relief to the marginalised. But without drawing any distinction between those who can afford and those who cannot afford, if you start giving,will it not amount to a sort of appeasing policy ? CJI Surya Kant.

#SupremeCourt hears plea seeking guidelines against racial discrimination faced by North-Eastern Individuals Counsel: it is said before the floor of the Parliament that they are not inclined to make any such agency

Counsel mentions that no amendments were made in the present criminal laws

#SupremeCourt to shortly hear PIL assailing digging up of tribal Christians' dead bodies in Chhattisgarh villages and their relocation away from village grounds

Bench: Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and NV Anjaria

The plea seeks a declaration that all persons, irrespective of religion, are permitted to bury their deceased in the village where they live Hearing begins

Sr Adv Colin Gonsalves (for petitioners): Petitioner No.7 is a direct victim...body of his dead mother was exhumed and re-buried without his knowledge...petitioner No.9 - dead body of her husband was exhumed and re-buried in an undisclosed location...I have annexed all photos. Please see the order relied upon.

#SupremeCourt hears pleas challenging provisions of the Bodhgaya Temple Act 1949 Counsel : the matter has been pending for 14 years, R1 and R3 have not filed responses

#SupremeCourt hears PIL seeking directions for an SIT probe into alleged irregular allotment of public contracts to companies owned by relatives of Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu @PemaKhanduBJP Advocate Prashant Bhushan: this is that case of contract...

Counsel for Respondent: we have filed detailed chart

Bhushan: earlier affidavit of State gov, where they filed contract related to Tawang...we pointed out large number of firms related to chief minister. they filed for 4 firms which they felt was directly related to CM.

#SupremeCourt hears a plea filed by @gauravbhatiabjp in a murder case that took place in State of West Bengal. Bhatia claims that no FIR was registered pursuant to Lalita Kumari judgment Bhatia: today I am being told that Kapil Sibal for State is not available. 19 murders, all political in nature. Your lordships must taken an account that IAs would be listed. Like closure report filed in this case, it would be filed in those. Mylords should have a view as to what is happening in the State.

#SupremeCourt to shortly hear pleas challenging certain provisions of the #DigitalPersonalDataProtection Act, 2023 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules 2025

As per the petitioners, DPDP Act weakens the transparency framework under the RTI Act by creating what it describes as a blanket exemption for disclosure of personal information

Bench: CJI Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipul M Pancholi Court seized of two petitions today - one filed by digital news platform The Reporters Collective and journalist Nitin Sethi - and another filed by the National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI).

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#SupremeCourt hears bail plea of man accused of rape on false promise of marriage.

Bench: Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan. J Nagarathna: Why did she travel to Dubai?

Counsel: because they met on the matrimonial website and they were going to marry.

#SupremeCourt continues hearing habeas corpus filed by Dr Gitanjali Angmo @GitanjaliAngmo seeking to declare detention of Sonam Wangchuk @Wangchuk66 under the National Security Act illegal.

Judgment likely to be reserved today. @GitanjaliAngmo @Wangchuk66 Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal @KapilSibal to argue on rejoinder today.

#SabarimalaReview: #SupremeCourt to hear today a batch of review petitions and writ petitions arising out of the Court's 2018 Sabarimala judgment, which allowed women of all ages to enter into Lord Ayyappa's temple

Bench: CJI Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipul M Pancholi Listed alongwith these are petitions relating to the issues of Muslim women's entry in Dargah/mosques, entry of Parsi women in Fire Temples if they have married a non-Parsi, and validity of the practice of Female Genital Mutilation among Dawoodi Bohra community.

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#SupremeCourt to hear today petitions seeking FIR and SIT probe against Assam CM #HimantaBiswaSarma for hate speech offences.

Bench : CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi.

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#SupremeCourtofIndia Update: Bench comprises CJI Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipul M Pancholi.

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#SupremeCourt hears the suo motu matter over the Allahabad HC order, which held that grabbing the breasts of a minor girl, breaking the string of her pyjama and trying to drag her beneath a culvert would not come under the offence of attempt to rape J Bagchi: the handbook prescribes to use the forensic expression, that itself may be incomprehensible to common man

#SupremeCourt hears please seeking reservation for OBC advocates in the office of the Advocate General Madhya Pradesh.

Bench: Justice MM Sundresh and Justice N Kotiswar Singh. Counsel for petitioner: in the recent appointment they have not taken a single ST candidates and only limited SC candidates.

J Sundresh: can we give reservations for law clerks? The AG will bring his own people.

#AllahabadHighCourt to continue hearing petitions filed by ASP Anuj Chaudhary & #UPGovt challenging a January 2026 order passed by a CJM Court in #Sambhal, which ordered FIR against @Uppolice officials over an alleged firing incident during November 2024 #SambhalViolence A bench of Justice Samit Gopal will hear the case.

Yesterday,the Additional Advocate General (AAG) Manish Goyal argued that the Magistrate concerned had "exceeded the boundaries of the #BNSS" by passing the impugned order by ignoring the mandatory safeguards under the law.

#SupremeCourt hears the suo motu issue of digital arrest scams CJI: you can apprise us if the HCs are running any parallel proceedings, we dont want that

AG refers to the status report in view of the progress being made

#SupremeCourt to hear today a batch of petitions related to #WestBengalSIR, including WB Chief Minister #MamataBanerjee's plea raising issues inter-alia about characterization of voters in the 'logical discrepancy' list

Bench: CJI Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice NV Anjaria

A PIL by 'Sanatani Sangsad' seeking deployment of state police officials under ECI till publication of final roll also listed before the bench. The ECI has filed a counter in this case, alleging violence, intimidation and obstruction in SIR duties in West Bengal Read more about ECI's affidavit here:

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#SupremeCourt hears the issue of reservation for women lawyers in Bar Council Elections CJI: the representation from 30 to anythign we are not going to change

Counsel: BCI or BCD cannot be a particular body which can decide to co-opt...only 23 can be elected, remaining 2 can be anyone...when women candidate are to be co-opted- there are so many in the frame, it is women against women

#SupremeCourt to hear today Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party’s petition challenging #Bihar assembly elections.

They contend that election was vitiated due to announcement of Rs 10K transfer to women during MCC period. They seek fresh elections.

@PrashantKishor #BiharElections matter taken up

Sr Adv CU Singh (for Jan Suraaj): The point which arises here is...what your lordships are seized of in Upadhyay matter etc. - freebies matter...

J Bagchi: In which clause of S.100 will your election petition fall?

CJI: Suppose someone files election petition in time

Singh: Level playing field on the face of it...creating situation where there's complete disparity...in a fiscal deficit state...most indebted state...to pay 15,600 crores in immediate pre-election time...adding to future debt, with no budgetary support.

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Kerala High Court continues hearing plea by father of accused in Venjaramoodu Mass Murder case challenging release of movie allegedly inspired by the case

#KeralaHC #VenjaramooduMassMurder #KaalamParanjaKadha Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas is considering the case

#SupremeCourt hears challenge to Karnataka HC order which set aside the 2023 election of Congress Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) K Y Nanjegowda representing Malur constituency (Kolar district). Sr Adv AM Singhvi for the petitioner