Kevin Sebastian

SCO tracks how the Supreme Court may have brought incremental relaxations to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act since 2022

By drawing on the ‘bail is rule, jail is exception’ proposition in a PMLA case again, the Court may have softened its 2022 interpretation

Constitution Bench cases on affirmative action, mining taxes, arbitration and driving licences dominated the Court’s docket in August

Two recent dissents raised the question about smaller benches referring matters to larger benches. We look at the Court’s jurisprudence.

Favouring a retrospective effect, the SC noted that a prospective overruling was not “constitutionally just” towards the state governments