Hearing a PIL against statutory schemes that "provincialise" teachers without a fair, competitive recruitment process, Supreme Court issues an interim order barring appointment of any teacher in schools or colleges who lacks the qualifications prescribed under the RTE, NCTE and UGC frameworks.
Supreme Court holds that service rendered on contract, ad hoc, daily-wage or work-charge basis before regularisation must count as qualifying service for pension, and that employees who entered service before 2004 but were regularised later can still fall under the older pension scheme.
Relying on the Puttaswamy privacy judgment, Madras High Court directs the Tamil Nadu Nurses and Midwives Council to record a transgender man as "male" — not "transgender man" — across all his professional records, holding the right to construct one's own identity is part of the fundamental right to privacy.
Rajasthan High Court directs the Bar Council of Rajasthan to dispose of all pending advocate-enrolment applications by September 9, 2026, holding that delays traced to the Bar Council's own election process were adversely affecting law graduates' right to livelihood.
Rajasthan High Court disposes of a PIL on leopard-habitat protection in Jawai by declaring a 1-km interim regulatory zone around notified conservation boundaries — a precautionary screening distance, not a permanent no-construction line, pending a full state policy.
The Punjab & Haryana High Court has held an 81-year-old litigant guilty of criminal contempt for levelling scandalous, uncorroborated allegations of corruption and collusion against sitting and former judges and judicial officers, holding that fair criticism of a judicial order is distinct from imputing dishonest motives to the judge who passed it.
The Supreme Court has acquitted a man convicted of raping a five-year-old girl and sentenced to life imprisonment, holding that a Test Identification Parade conducted during investigation is not substantive evidence of identity, and that the prosecution's case was fatally deficient since the victim did not identify the accused when she deposited before the trial court, though he was present.
The Rajasthan High Court has held that a husband cannot be held liable for dues attributed to his wife's tenure as a Gram Panchayat Sarpanch, absent proof of his own involvement, and directed issuance of a no-dues certificate needed for him to contest a Panchayati Raj election.
MP High Court upholds the conviction but commutes to life imprisonment the death sentence of a man found guilty of raping and murdering a two-year-old girl in Shahdol district, holding the case did not meet the "rarest of rare" threshold for capital punishment.
Delhi High Court directs Delhi Police to decide within a week a fresh application by the Kshatriya Karni Sena to hold a September 20 protest at Jantar Mantar against newly notified UGC equity regulations.
Delhi High Court rejects a habeas corpus plea by Swatantra Bhardwaj challenging his arrest over the alleged assault of a teenage CJP protester's father at Jantar Mantar, finding his key argument was never raised in the petition itself and the underlying FIR had not been quashed.
Delhi High Court waives ₹25,000 in costs imposed on a litigant after his counsel — then eight months pregnant and advised bed rest — could not appear for cross-examination, holding a litigant should not bear a heavy financial burden once genuine cause for the lawyer's absence is shown.