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ON Monday, the Union Government notified the appointment of three judges to the Supreme Court, raising the functioning strength of the Court to 37 against the sanctioned strength of 38, including the Chief Justice of India. Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court Sunita Agarwal, Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya, and Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court Aparesh Kumar Singh were appointed as judges of the Supreme Court yesterday.

ON MONDAY, THE SUPREME COURT issued notice on petitions seeking the suspension of Gyanesh Kumar from functioning as Chief Election Commissioner and directions for his prosecution over alleged unilateral decisions on the conduct of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which the petitioners say led to large-scale disenfranchisement. A Bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V.

ON 25th September Indian express devastatingly exposed the  compromised functioning of  Chief Election Commissioner,  Gyanesh Kumar in operating SIR across the country  leading to disenfranchisement of 13 crores of voters in 20 States. It unmasked that two Election Commissioners objected on record to poll panel’s  steps 14 times in ten months.

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Arbitration in India was conceived as an escape route from the procedural quagmire of ordinary civil courts. Yet, three decades after the enactment of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (‘the Act’), it remains caught in a persistent paradox: a dispute-resolution mechanism designed to operate with substantial independence from the State is still tethered to judicial supervision.

LAST MONTH, the Division Bench of Justices Manoj Misra and Manmohan of the Supreme Court pronounced its judgment in Santosh Associate (P) Ltd. v. Haryana SIIDC Ltd. (2026) in which it made reference to a larger bench the question of whether an arbitration clause that requires a refundable pre-deposit to be made by a claimant as a precondition to arbitration is legally valid.

THE JOINT PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE (‘JPC’) examining the One Nation, One Election (‘ONOE’) Bills has cancelled its ‘informal discussion’ scheduled with the Supreme Court justices on October 6, 2026. The report comes after Members of Parliament had flagged concerns regarding the principle of separation of powers that come with the visit.

FORMER BUREAUCRAT and founding member of the All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation, Bhimrao Duryodhan Borkar, has approached the Supreme Court challenging two orders issued by the Union Home Ministry (MHA) on January 28, 2026 and July 9, 2026, which Borkar describes as imposing a divisive religious war song as the National Song of India, referring to the six-stanza civil war song of Anandamath with its unconstitutional idolatrous and Islamophobic content.

FOR GANDHI, voting was a duty before it was a privilege, an act of public judgment that a citizen owed to the country and could not surrender to friendship or faction. In ‘What Should the Voters Do?’, published in Navajivan on May 16, 1920, he set out how he would judge the candidates if he were to cast a vote himself. Gandhi wrote this at a time when the legislative councils created by the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms were about to face their first electorate.

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