The Special Bench comprising five seniormost judges of the Supreme Court will assemble on 29 January 2024 to hear the case on merits

SCO tracks the evolution of the Ayodhya title dispute from 1528 to 2024

The top court encouraged the standardisation of virtual hearing procedures across the country’s High Courts

In the Ram Janmabhoomi litigation, more than a century of faith-based contestation came down to possessory rights in a title suit

Civil rights champion, ‘black letter’ judge, the man who shook up Indian IP jurisprudence—who was the real Justice Bhat?

The author of ‘India’s Communal Constitution’ on the balance between individual rights, religious identities and the Uniform Civil Code

A Division Bench unanimously ordered the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case to return to prison within two weeks

As 2023 ended, we at SCO thematically broke down what the Court said on key issues of the year

In two Constitution Bench cases, the Court clarified centre-state relationships in an asymmetric federal structure

The Court’s performance this year was more defined by what it didn’t do than what it did—no hearing for the Hijab Ban and Sabarimala cases

Cases instituted in 2023 crossed pre-pandemic levels from 2019 but disposal rate was particularly healthy at 96 percent

And just like that, it’s the end of another busy year, both for the Supreme Court and Supreme Court Observer.