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Friday, November 14, 2025
TopicSupreme Court

Topic: Supreme Court

Our take on Operation Sindoor, India-Pakistan escalation, Pope Leo XIV & more—in 50 words

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

Inside SC’s split verdict on culpability of former TN minister’s wife in disproportionate assets case

P Nallammal, wife of late former Tamil Nadu labour minister AM Paramasivam, has challenged her conviction by a lower court. All eyes now on incoming Chief Justice of India BR Gavai.

SC ruling on JSW-Bhushan steel is a case of clever lawyering. It’ll hurt investor confidence

Supreme Court verdict is unfortunate, given how few applicants come forward in insolvency cases of this scale—and part of the legislative intention behind the IBC was to rescue businesses.

SC cites judicial restraint, high threshold for invoking contempt as it rejects plea against Nishikant

Dubey last month launched broadside against SC while it was hearing pleas against Waqf Act. SC said the statements were aimed at scandalising and lowering court's authority.

CJI Khanna sends inquiry panel report to President, PM for removal of cash row judge

CJI forwarded the report Thursday following Justice Yashwant Varma’s refusal to step down, ThePrint has learnt.

‘Ambiguous questions, multiple correct answers’—SC tells UP panel to re-evaluate lekhpal exam scripts

The 'conflicting and ambiguous' answer key is what drove hordes of candidates appearing for the 2021-2022 examination conducted by the UPSSSC, to the Supreme Court.

Relief for CPI(M) MLA A Raja as SC overturns Kerala HC’s disqualification order

Raja’s nomination was challenged by Congress rival D Kumar, who argued that Raja did not meet eligibility criteria under Section 5 of Representation of the People Act.

After SC rap, Jharkhand HC scrambles to clear murder appeal backlog—verdicts in 2 of 4 cases delivered

An HC bench acquitted 2 facing life imprisonment in a 2011 murder case, and 3 others convicted and sentenced to life in 2012 in connection with a murder case registered in 2009.

21 judges make details of assets public as part of SC’s transparency push. Flats, FDs to gold & shares

Declaration is part of a resolution unanimously approved by all the sitting SC judges following a row after the alleged discovery of cash at residence of judge Yashwant Varma.

In a first, SC releases list disclosing proposed HC judges’ ties to sitting & former judges

Last month, ThePrint reported that 1 in every 3 of India’s 687 sitting permanent high court judges is either related to a sitting or former judge, or comes from a family of lawyers.

On Camera

Virat, Anushka, Bumrah selling sarias & cement, dentists, vets, Bihar walls painted in ‘rurbanisation’

Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.