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From Skill to Stakes: How Junglee Games and Gameskraft reshape India’s online gaming laws
As these landmark judgements on betting and gambling redefine gaming laws, a major federal question still hangs in the balance
18th Jun 2026
Analysis
Freeze first, hear later: Cost of centralising the tansgender amendment challenge
Article 139A lets the Court secure uniformity, but a blanket stay risks turning procedure into a substantive defeat.
18th Jun 2026
Analysis
Justice Pankaj Mithal’s Notable Judgements
From Waqf to Sub-classification of Scheduled Castes, Justice Mithal has been a part of it all
16th Jun 2026
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The audit from below
On unrelated facts, both Allahabad and Madras High Courts fault the Supreme Court for ignoring consistency.
16th Jun 2026
Analysis
SCO.LR | 2026 | Volume 6 | Issue 3
In this Issue, we shortlist five unmissable judgements from 8 June to 12 June 2026
15th Jun 2026
Analysis
SC disimisses Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan’s challenge against the rejection of her Rajya Sabha nomination
The Bench held Article 329 bars judicial intervention during elections, leaving Natarajan to pursue an election petition before High Court
12th Jun 2026
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Part 2 | Andrabi engages with the Union’s deferring tactic in UAPA bail cases
The Union’s approach to defer bail pleas by a year was rejected by the Bench, paving the way for bail under the stringent statute
11th Jun 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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Analysis
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
