Indira Banerjee

In a landmark judgment, the Court held that confession to officers under the Act is not admissible as evidence during trial and infringes on the Constitution. This will have ramifications for the Rhea Chakraborty case as well as others.

The Supreme Court has granted a two-week interim bail to Sukesh Chandrashekhar, alleged middleman in the AIADMK’s ‘two leaves’ symbol matter. The bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee granted the interim bail on ground of his father’s illness.

The Supreme Court has observed that the lathi is an identity of the people living in the villages. It cannot be called a weapon of attack.

In a split verdict for which elaborate reasons were given, a larger apex court bench will decide whether family courts can hear Muslim women’s maintenance pleas