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Despite establishing a National Tribunals Commission, the Tribunals Reforms Act, 2026 retains significant executive control over the institutions meant to be insulated from it.

The panel, headed by former Supreme Court judge R. Subhash Reddy, will examine allegations ranging from the use of pellet guns and lathi charges to surveillance and violence against female protesters, alongside counter-allegations of property damage and injuries to police personnel.

Despite research showing that womens complaints under the Domestic Violence Act are overwhelmingly genuine, courts and lawmakers continue to entertain claims of misuse while the law itself remains starved of the sensitisation, procedure, and political will needed to make it work.

The ex-Bangladesh PMs return following a death sentence imposed in absentia brings renewed attention to the International Crimes Tribunals troubled record on fair trial guarantees, retrospective criminalization and capital punishment, while raising difficult questions for India over extradition.

A nine-judge bench, by majority, has refined but not overturned the triple test in Bangalore Water Supply for what counts as an industry under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.

The Sessions Courts order, which conflates political solidarity with criminal intent, denies anticipatory bail to two TISS students as it treats slogans demanding the release of undertrials Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, and homage paid to the late Professor G.N. Saibaba, as grounds for suspicion.

The new Amendment turns states plenary taxing powers over minerals into a licence granted at the Centres discretion, setting up a serious constitutional challenge and dealing a fresh blow to fiscal federalism.

Concluding a flip flop of conflicting coordinate bench decisions, the Vanashakti III judgment struck down the office memorandum permitting ex-post facto breaches of environmental law. Read carefully though, it favours regularisation, providing an intricate blueprint for it.

The Judges Inquiry Committees Report tabled in Lok Sabha holds that unaccounted currency was found in a storeroom under Justice Varmas control, that evidence was tampered with before it could be sealed, and that his explanations were evasive findings that echo the Supreme Courts In-House Committees conclusions before Varma resigned in April.

The Forums seventh Annual Report documents a rekindled militancy following the Red Fort attack, a rise in the profiling and harassment of Kashmiri Muslims, the routine invocation of UAPA and PSA against civilians, and continued stagnation on statehood, alongside a special section on Ladakh and Pakistan-held Kashmir.