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Aug 5

Supreme Court hears a suo motu case involving the death of a 31-year-old resident doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal.

Bench: Justice MM Sundresh and NK Singh

The case, involving a junior doctor's death at a college seminar hall, has triggered nationwide protests, prompting the Supreme Court to take suo motu cognisance to examine workplace safety for medical professionals and issues in the RG Kar probe.

Justice MM Sundresh: Who is appearing for Union?

Counsel: I appear for Union. As far as intervenor application are concerned, the Registry was sent on email Id...whatever was received on that email I'd, NTF has considered that.....to this effect Union has also filed an affidavit in May 2025.

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Aug 5

Supreme Court hears bail plea by Suryakant Tiwari who is implicated in a case involving an alleged extortion racket related to coal transportation in Chhattisgarh. The accusations involve extorting money from coal transporters, reportedly in connivance with senior bureaucrats, including Saumya Chaurasia, a former Deputy Secretary in the office of the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh.

Bench: Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi

Sr. Adv. Mukul Rohatgi: the IAS officers who were the main persons behind this have been granted bail. Why should this man be kept in jail.

Sr. Adv. Mahesh Jethmalani: this man is involved in a series of scams. The last one was coal levy. They took 25 rupees per ton on coal transportation.

Court: he has been granted interim bail in the coal scam. Are you seeking cancellation only on the ground that he might threaten the witnesses?

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Aug 5

Supreme Court is hearing petitions challenging a Telangana High Court ruling that relaxed domicile rules for medical college admissions in the state

Bench led by CJI takes up the matter

Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi represents the State of Telangana.

CJI: Let’s take a student born and raised in Telangana, but moves away briefly for just Class 10 and 11 perhaps to Kota for coaching. What about them?

Singhvi: The Telugu-speaking global community is enormous among the top 3 outside India. Those individuals would enter through the NRI route. But once a domicile rule is recognised, a threshold is inevitable. We’ve drawn that at four years

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Singhvi: Your Lordships are aware of the Nakara principle any line drawn will have elements of arbitrariness.

CJI: Suppose a Telangana-based IAS officer is posted in Delhi and his child studies there for 2 years. What then?... But in your rule, even if a child leaves Telangana for just 2 years, they are excluded..what about those students who were not aware about anything... Chose to go to other states and they are neither here nor there.

CJI: Take a Telangana-origin judge transferred to Bihar his son would be disqualified through no fault of his..

Singhvi refers to a Government Order based on a Presidential Order to support the State’s stance.

CJI: If parents can afford the children can be sent to London or US

Singhvi: But that does not mean you can reserve something in the state which is actually meant for some people who deserve it.

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Aug 5

Supreme Court resumes hearing plea filed by the management committee of Banke Bihari temple challenging the UP Government’s 2025 ordinance taking control over the temple’s management and seeking recall of the May 15 judgement of the Supreme Court allowing the Government to use temple funds for developing a corridor around the temple.

Bench: Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi

Yesterday, the Court had proposed the administration of the temple to be taken over by a committee presided by a retired High Court judge and the order of 15 May to be kept in abeyance till the appeal till the constitutionality of the ordinance is decided by the High Court. ASG KM Nataraj had taken time to seek instructions on this proposal.

Today’s hearing begins:

ASG KM Nataraj: let me clarify the ordinance. Ordinance had nothing to do with the writ petition. There was a PIL filed for better administration of the temple.

Court: that may be a good argument but you can take it when we relegate them to the HC to challenge the ordinance.

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Aug 5

Supreme Court hears a bail plea of former bureaucrat Anil Tuteja in a case initiated against him by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in connection with the Chhattisgarh liquor scam.

Bench: Justice M M Sundresh and Justice NK Singh

Senior Advocate, Meenakshi Arora: I have already spend a considerable period of time in incarceration—one and half years.

Advocate Arora argues that bail has been granted to all other accused except the petitioner and Anwar Dhebar.

Advocate Arora: Five raids had been conducted and not a single penny has been recovered.

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Aug 4

Supreme Court resumes hearing a petition filed by Abhinav Delkar, son of the late parliamentarian, challenging the Bombay High Court’s decision to quash the FIR against nine persons, including Praful Patel, Administrator of the Union Territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu and Lakshadweep #SupremeCourt

The top court had earlier expressed serious reservations over whether the material placed on record in the Mohan Delkar suicide case could sustain charges of abetment of suicide under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

CJI: the person had time to think over everything and write 30 pages. So can we say that it was at the spur of the moment?

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