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    Courts across India decide thousands of matters a week. We pick the one that changes something for ordinary people, read the judgment itself, and write up what it actually says — no headlines, no paraphrasing someone else's summary.

    July 20264 explainers
    Labour

    Supreme Court: A 25-Year Fight for Back Wages

    A CRPF officer was removed from service in 1995 and spent a quarter of a century in court. The Supreme Court held that once a wrongful penalty is cut down it relates back to the original date — and ordered his promotion made real, his back wages and pension paid, and ₹10 lakh in costs for the ordeal.

    21 July 2026Supreme Court of India 7 min read
    Fundamental rights

    Supreme Court: Early Release for Elderly, Ill Prisoners

    The Supreme Court has given every State and Union Territory three months to create a proper system for releasing prisoners who are very old or dying — holding that keeping them locked up with no way out, and no real medical care, violates the Constitution.

    16 July 2026Supreme Court of India 9 min read
    General

    Supreme Court: Fake AI Case Law Makes a Ruling Void

    The Supreme Court threw out insolvency orders against a company after finding that the tribunal had leaned on six precedents that were fake, misquoted, or simply did not exist — and laid down a zero-tolerance rule for judges and lawyers alike.

    2 July 2026Supreme Court of India 6 min read
    Consumer

    When a bank's property auction can be set aside

    A bank's SARFAESI auction can be cancelled if the rules are not followed - here the winning bidder paid the balance five days late, so the Supreme Court set the sale aside and let the owner's family redeem the property.

    9 June 2026Supreme Court of India 3 min read
    June 20262 explainers
    Family

    Homemaker's death: the new 'loss of domestic care' payout

    The Supreme Court created a new 'loss of domestic care' head — at least Rs 30,000 a month — for the death of a homemaker, calling her a 'Nation Builder', and raised one family's accident award from about Rs 2.4 lakh to Rs 62.8 lakh.

    11 June 2026Supreme Court of India 3 min read
    Tenancy

    Can a tenant dispute the landlord's title?

    A tenant who took a shop on rent could not avoid eviction by claiming the landlord was not the real owner — the Supreme Court applied the rule of tenant estoppel.

    11 September 2025Supreme Court of India 3 min read

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