The Bombay High Court’s Nagpur Bench turned 23 news reports into suo motu PILs within eleven weeks of 2026, acting on media stories and lawyers’ letters. This already exceeds the eighteen such cases initiated in all of 2025.
The Supreme Court of India allowed a minor expelled from a school in Indore over an alleged inappropriate meme to appear in the Class 10 exam and directed CISCE to issue his admit card. The bench said, “Instead of reforming him, you have decided to rusticate him…you should have taken responsibility to reform the child but rusticated him just because you said he was a bad boy.”
Today, On 11th February, The Supreme Court addressed the issue of talaq pronounced via WhatsApp and email, saying, “People will pre-judge us if we ban talaq pronounced via WhatsApp, email.” The Court added, “We will not shy away from issuing directions, but that we will do only after hearing both sides.”
