Hearing Reports
Hearing Reports
Constitutionality of Waqf Amendment Act | Arguments Matrix on Interim Stay
We summarise key arguments by the petitioners and the Union on whether an interim stay should be imposed on the 2025 Amendment Act
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Challenge to Union’s 2016 Demonetisation Scheme | Judgement Summary
We summarise the 382-page judgement which upheld the Union’s 2016 Demonetisation Scheme in a 4:1 majority
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Constitutionality of Waqf Amendment Act | Day 5: Provisions not glaringly unconstitutional, interim stay unnecessary, says Union
Petitioners argued that waqfs were unregistered due to poor implementation of survey provisions by governments; Bench reserves judgement
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Constitutionality of Waqf Amendment Act | Day 4: Unregistered waqf properties squandered three chances, Union argues in stay hearing
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta argued that the Waqf Acts of 1923, 1954 and 1995 all provided an opportunity for registration of properties
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Analysis
Supreme Court’s strictures against summoning lawyers are backed by precedents
In several cases, the Supreme Court and High Courts have emphasised the confidentiality of communication between a lawyer and their client
Analysis
Where does the Supreme Court really stand on free speech?
Mainstream media coverage of three recent free speech cases in the Supreme Court highlights the inconsistencies of a polyvocal court
May 21, 2025
Constitutionality of Waqf Amendment Act | Day 4
May 14, 2025
Challenge to the Election Commissioners Act, 2023 | Day 2
May 14, 2025
Constitutionality of Blood Donation Guidelines | Day 1
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Pending
In re: Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025
The Court will decide whether the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, violates the freedom of religious denominations to manage their affairs. The decision will determine the degree of the Union’s control over the management of Waqf properties.
Challenges to the Appointment of Election Commissioners Act, 2023
Pending
Jaya Thakur v Union of India
The Supreme Court will decide if the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioner Act, 2023 is contrary to the Constitution Bench decision in Anoop Baranwal (2023). The Act sets up a committee to nominate members to the ECI.
Constitutionality of Blood Donation Guidelines
Pending
Thangjam Santa Singh @Santa Khurai v. Union of India & Ors
The Supreme Court will decide if the guidelines imposing a permanent ban on transgender persons, men who have sex with men, and female sex workers from donating blood is constitutional. This case presents an opportunity for the Court to join the global departure from permanent bans based on gender and sexual orientation stereotypes.
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Chief-in-waiting: New door opened by Collegium in its Justice Bagchi recommendation
If ‘in-line-to-be-CJI’ is now a relevant consideration for SC elevation, we examine how the Collegium might have picked Justice Bagchi
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What’s new in the Supreme Court’s latest transparency initiative?
We examine whether the documents released by the Court earlier this week reveal information that was not already in the public domain
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Analysis
The right to life and personal liberty under Article 21: A timeline
50 years since the Emergency, SCO traces the Court’s gradual expansion of the right to life and personal liberty
Analysis
On civil liberties and the Supreme Court, there is little to celebrate since the Emergency
Fifty years since the Emergency, a reflection on personal liberty from the lens of the UNHRC’s periodic review of ICCPR implementation
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R.G. Kar Medical College rape and murder case: Updates from the Supreme Court
Everything that happened at the Supreme Court over five days of hearings in the R.G. Kar rape and murder case
Analysis
Almost all questions in presidential reference have been answered in TN Governor Judgement
The reference to the SC amounts to relitigating questions on the scope of presidential and gubernatorial powers around assent to state Bills