Journalist Ravi Nair has moved the Supreme Court seeking release from custody in a criminal defamation case filed by Adani Enterprises, after he was arrested on a Gujarat court’s non-bailable warrant and the Gujarat High Court declined interim release. His counsel mentioned the matter before the CJI for urgent listing, which was not entertained. Nair contends the warrant breached the graded procedure the Supreme Court requires before a non-bailable warrant is issued.
The Supreme Court has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence imposed on a man convicted of raping and murdering a six-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh. A Bench of Justice Vikram Nath, Justice Sandeep Mehta and Justice Vijay Bishnoi upheld the conviction but held the case did not warrant the death penalty, applying the ‘rarest of rare’ framework. The detailed reasons are awaited with the judgment.
The Delhi High Court has denied anticipatory bail to commentator Ajeet Bharti in a case under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, holding the plea not maintainable in view of the statutory bar on anticipatory bail under the special law, and that an offence was prima facie made out. The case arises from an FIR alleging casteist and derogatory remarks; the allegations are untested and Bharti is presumed innocent. A detailed order is awaited.
The Allahabad High Court has ordered an inquiry after a caesarean section was performed on a minor rape survivor even though the Court had directed the termination of her pregnancy. Holding the doctors prima facie guilty of ‘deliberate negligence’ for not complying with its order, the Court said they had ‘played with the life of a rape victim’, and directed the Uttar Pradesh Principal Secretary (Medical and Health) to inquire and report within two weeks.
A Supreme Court advocate has written to the Attorney General for India seeking his consent to initiate criminal contempt proceedings against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, alleging wilful disobedience of Supreme Court judgments on the functioning of the Election Commission. The request, based on a news report of internal objections by two Election Commissioners, remains at the consent stage; no contempt case has been filed, the allegations are untested, and the ECI has denied any rift.
The Supreme Court has stayed the operation of paragraphs 27 to 33 of the Allahabad High Court judgment that had directed the recovery of ₹5 lakh from the personal salary of Noida DM Medha Roopam, and recorded strictures against her, over a student’s quashed NSA detention. Issuing notice on her plea and a connected State petition, the Court stayed the strictures until the matter is heard on merits, and listed it for October 7.
A Delhi court has issued notice to the Delhi Police and sought a status report on a plea under Section 175(3) BNSS seeking the registration of an FIR against a minor CJP protester and her father over allegedly communal social-media posts. The allegations are untested, no FIR has been ordered, and, the accused being a minor, any proceeding would fall under the juvenile-justice framework. The matter is listed in January 2027.
A Maharashtra Magistrate has issued a show-cause contempt notice to the Divisional Railway Manager, Nanded Division, over the failure to replace bed-bug-infested sofas in the VIP room at the Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar railway station and to carry out pest control, despite an earlier direction. The Judge noted that High Court judges who wait in the room had been sitting in their cars instead, and directed the officer to appear in person on September 30.
SEBI has settled its adjudication proceedings against five Adani Group companies, arising from an examination into disclosure and corporate-governance issues flagged in the Hindenburg report, on payment of settlement amounts totalling about Rs 1.51 crore. The settlement was arrived at without the companies admitting or denying the findings, and disposes of the proceedings without any finding of wrongdoing, subject to SEBI’s right to restore them in certain circumstances.