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The Supreme Court granted bail to three people accused of planning to swap blood samples in the 2024 Pune Porsche crash case, which led to the deaths of two persons. A bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan ordered the immediate release of Ashish Satish Mittal, Aditya Avinash Sood, and Amar Santhosh Gaikwad, subject […]

The Supreme Court asked US pharmaceutical company Pfizer whether courts in the US and other Western countries would similarly share information with India under the principle of reciprocity. A bench of Chief Justice of India(CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was hearing Pfizer’s challenge to a Madras High Court decision, which had refused to

The Supreme Court on Thursday concluded hearings and reserved its judgment in a suo motu case initiated last year to address India’s growing stray dog problem. The case was heard by a Bench led by Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta, and N V Anjaria, which urged authorities to take stronger and more effective action. After

The Supreme Court has declined to entertain a public interest litigation (PIL) that sought to enhance the judge to population ratio to 50 judges per million to curb the pendency of cases nationwide. The petition was brought by the Forum for Fast Justice before a bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI)Surya Kant and

The Supreme Court of India said that the Union Government may need to step in with new legislation to impose stricter punishment in acid attack cases. The Court also suggested that the law could consider reversing the burden of proof, similar to the provisions dealing with dowry deaths under criminal law. These oral observations were

The Supreme Court clarified that granting probation in a criminal case does not wipe out the consequences of misconduct in departmental proceedings. The Court held that release under the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 cannot be used as a ground to substitute the punishment imposed on an employee in disciplinary proceedings. Facts: The case arose

During a hearing on 27 January 2026, a Supreme Court Bench led by Chief Justice of India(CJI) Surya Kant, along with Justice R. Mahadevan and Justice Joymalya Bagchi, sharply questioned the Bar Council of India (BCI) over its refusal to pay proper honorarium and travel allowances to retired High Court Judges. These retired Judges have

The Supreme Court on Thursday drew attention after it issued a notice on a curative petition filed by Lashkar-e-Taiba militant Mohd. Arif, who has been sentenced to death for the 2000 Red Fort attack. A bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant, along with Justices Vikram Nath and J.K. Maheshwari, considered Arif’s challenge to the

The Supreme Court bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Satish Chandra Sharma held that when High Courts refuse to quash an FIR, they cannot at the same time direct the police to follow Section 41A of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973. The Court explained that under Section 41A, if an accused appears regularly in response

The Supreme Court has upheld the interim anticipatory bail granted to the accused in a “grey routing” case, which involves the illegal rerouting of international calls and disguising them as local Indian calls using special internet-based phone lines on Jio’s enterprise networks. Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice PB Varale finalized the protection after noting that