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Reservation for EWS: 5 Must Reads

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Will EWS Reservation Survive?

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A reform and its shadow

The Collegium's new advance-transfer policy is a welcome administrative fix packaged with a less comfortable supersession.

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SCO.LR | 2026 | Volume 3 | Issue 2

With the Court on Holi break last week, this edition covers five bonus judgements from February 2026.

SCO Team

9th Mar 2026

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Atomic risk

The Supreme Court heard a petition challenging India's new nuclear energy law just as the world confronted nuclear safety's stakes.

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Maldives: Supermajority enables ‘rule by law’

An anti-defection law—followed by moves against independent commissions, the judiciary and the media—has hollowed out constitutional checks

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Beyond ‘Special’: How the 2025 Bihar SIR marks a break from the past

As the SC considers its verdict in the roll revision case following 29 hearing days, it must confront the history of electoral safeguards

Debjani M

6th Mar 2026

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Monthly Review: February 2026

Rather than a single, headline-making decision, February was marked with steady engagement across long-pending matters

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100 days of CJI Surya Kant

What was promised? What has been achieved? What can we expect? A brief look at the 53rd Chief Justice’s first 100 days.

Shalom Gauri

4th Mar 2026

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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.
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.

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.

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.

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.