Supreme Court permits Himachal Pradesh to withdraw prosecution in the remaining 48 of 63 criminal cases registered against MPs and MLAs over Covid-era dharnas and protests, after the Himachal Pradesh High Court had allowed withdrawal in only 15 of them.
Supreme Court denies anticipatory bail to Sumit Roy, personal assistant to TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, in the Salboni land-grab case, over allegations of illegal sale of West Bengal government land using forged documents and a linked cash trail.
Supreme Court holds that a company can face criminal prosecution for an offence requiring mens rea even where the individual officer through whom it allegedly acted has not been identified or arraigned, refusing to quash proceedings against Sanofi India over an alleged CBI procurement probe.
Bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N. Kotiswar Singh sets aside Punjab and Haryana HC's bail to alleged kingpin running heroin network from Goindwal Sahib jail; flags inconsistent Article 21 jurisprudence pending in Tasleem Ahmed reference.