The Supreme Court has once again urged the Election Commission to accept the Aadhaar card and the electoral photo identity card as valid documents for confirming voter identity during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral polls going on in Bihar.
The Supreme Court on Monday (July 28, 2025) pushed harder for the Election Commission of India (ECI) to accept Aadhaar and the Electors Photo Identity Card (EPIC) as identity documents in the Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR), saying “mass inclusion” and not “en masse exclusion” should be the outcome of the exercise in the poll-bound State.
The Supreme Court today issued notices to the Centre and all state governments on the issue of imposition of timelines on Governors and the President to act on Bills in the absence of a constitutionally-prescribed time limit.
The Supreme Court has ruled that all hotels, dhabas, and food stalls along the Kanwar Yatra route in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand must display their food licence and registration certificates. However, it chose not to get involved in recent government orders asking eateries to show QR codes or the names of owners and staff.
Calcutta High Court finally upheld the West Bengal School Service Commission’s authority to conduct the teacher’s recruitment examination under the prescribed rules.
In a major decision, the Delhi High Court has said that secretly recorded conversations between a husband and wife can be used as evidence in divorce cases. The court ruled that if one spouse records a conversation to prove cruelty or mistreatment, it does not break privacy laws.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has announced that a notification for fresh teacher recruitment will be issued by the 31st of May following the Supreme Court’s directive to address the fallout from the West Bengal School Service Commission or the WBSSC recruitment scam. The recruitment, announced during a press conference at the state secretariat will potentially aim to fill 24,203 vacant teaching positions while offering relief measures to educators affected by the court’s previous ruling that invalidated over 25 thousand irregular appointments.
The Union government is weighing the option of bringing in Parliament an impeachment motion against Allahabad High Court judge Yashwant Varma, who has been indicted by a Supreme Court-appointed probe panel after the discovery of a huge sum of burnt cash from his official residence in the national capital.
Sources in the government said an impeachment motion in Parliament, which meets next during the Monsoon Session starting in the second half of July, is an obvious choice if Justice Verma, who was repatriated from Delhi High Court to Allahabad High Court after the unsavoury incident, does not resign on his own.
The Supreme Court on Thursday (May 22, 2025) said a requirement to mandatorily register waqfs dated back to 1923, and did not start with the Waqf (Amendment) Act of 2025.
Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai, heading a Bench comprising Justice A.G. Masih, asked why waqfs across the country, including waqfs by user, had not bothered to register themselves all these years.
