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SCO.LR | 2025 | Volume 12 | Issue 2
In this Issue of SCO.LR, we bring you five important judgements from 1 December to 6 December 2025
8th Dec 2025
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Belated scrutiny
As the Supreme Court scrutinises the Special Intensive Revision, the question is whether justice delayed can still protect the franchise
8th Dec 2025
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Monthly Review: November 2025
An opinion on a Presidential Reference, two Constitution Bench judgements and the beginning of a long tenure for a new CJI
5th Dec 2025
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Seventy-Five years on: A Constitution still in negotiation
V. Krishna Ananth’s book argues that authoritative tools were a foundational compromise in the Constitution
4th Dec 2025
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Vanashakti Review: Demoting the law to a suggestion
In permitting retrospective environmental clearances, the Court subverts legal principles and turns the rule of precedents on its head
3rd Dec 2025
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Umar Khalid’s Bail Application Tracker
Tracking activist Umar Khalid's bail applications in the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India
3rd Dec 2025
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“What public interest are you protecting by keeping her in jail?” Singhvi asks in Delhi riots bail hearing
Petitioners attacked “speeches-as-conspiracy” and asked why UAPA custody continues without a single overt act
2nd Dec 2025
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
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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
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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
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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
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Do you have a right to the “truth serum” or narco analysis test in a criminal case?
8th Jan 2022