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SCO.LR | 2026 | Volume 9 | Issue 2
In this issue, we shortlist five important judgements from 7 September to 11 September 2026
14th Sep 2026
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Bench or bias?
From recusal pleas to judicial appointments, litigants and governments have reasons to care who sits on the bench.
14th Sep 2026
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The CJP Order and the limits of Article 142
The quashing of FIRs reads less like an adjudication and more like a settlement agreement that received a judicial stamp.
11th Sep 2026
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SC brings Jantar Mantar HPEC under its direct supervision
Bench directs confidential access for vulnerable witnesses
10th Sep 2026
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Bridging the “yawning gap”: The retirement age of District Judges
Supreme Court raises District Judges’ retirement age to 62 to arrest the “attrition of experienced judicial talent”.
8th Sep 2026
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Gujarat HC adds a second route around reproductive age limits
Court permits a fresh IVF request, extending reproductive choice beyond the Supreme Court’s transitional exception.
8th Sep 2026
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SCO.LR | 2026 | Volume 9 | Issue 1
In this issue, we shortlist five important judgements from 31 August to 4 September 2026
7th Sep 2026
From the editor's desk
The differential levels of scrutiny the Court applies to studies on caste vis-a-vis economic backwardness may have deep and abiding implications for how affirmative action policies are crafted in the future, and is especially prescient in a situation where challenges to EWS reservations remain pending.
The Mandal and Sinho Commissions: A Study in Contrasts
Studies examining caste-based backwardness have a higher bar to pass than those studying backwardness within the ‘general category'.
SCO Team
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Can the Supreme Court Provide Reservations for Orphans?
With the petition seeking orphans to be identified as a backward class, are we moving away from a caste centric definition of backwardness.
8th Jun 2021
Analysis
Part I—The Mandal and Sinho Commissions: A Study in Contrasts
There is a marked difference in the methodology employed by the Mandal and Major Sinho Commissions in studying backwardness.
11th Jan 2022
Analysis
SC Offers Hope for OBC Reservations in Maharashtra Municipal Elections
The Maharashtra government was directed to submit data justifying its OBC reservation policy to the State Commission for Backward Castes.
20th Jan 2022
Analysis
Medical Students Relieved as SC Issues Order in PG NEET Case
DESK BRIEF: The SC issued an Order allowing the Union to immediately commence counselling for admissions to postgraduate medical programmes.
8th Jan 2022
