Analysis

Two recent dissents raised the question about smaller benches referring matters to larger benches. We look at the Court’s jurisprudence.

It may be cynical to view the Supreme Court’s suo moto cognisance of the Kolkata rape and murder case merely as an optics game

The retrospective application of the decision to allow states to tax mines and minerals could have first- and second-order economic impacts

The bench also reviewed the CBI’s status report and directed the National Task Force to factor in concerns of doctors and other stakeholders

The Court settles doubts around ‘efficiency’ as a limitation to reservations, but its approach to methodology & creamy layer raise questions

In the suo motu case on adolescent privacy, the Court issued guidelines emphasising neutral judgments

The Court also directed the CBI to file a status report of its investigation of the R.G. Kar Hospital rape and murder incident by 22 August

This Independence Day weekend, dip into a series tracing the embattled origins, testy adolescence and fraught adulthood of the top court