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1. Supreme Court says modified Form 6 not approved by it amid SIR of electoral rolls

The Supreme Court on Monday clarified that it had not approved any changes to Form 6, the application used for registering new voters, while hearing petitions challenging the powers exercised by Chief

2. Gujarat High Court Advocates' Association to abstain from court work on October 5 and 6 over Rent Bill 2026

The Gujarat High Court Advocates' Association (GHCAA) on Monday resolved to abstain from court work on October 5 and 6 in solidarity with lawyers protesting provisions of the Gujarat Rent Bill, 2026.

Gujarat High Court Advocates' Association to abstain from court work on October 5 and 6 over Rent Bill 2026

The Gujarat High Court Advocates' Association (GHCAA) on Monday resolved to abstain from court work on October 5 and 6 in solidarity with lawyers protesting provisions of the Gujarat Rent Bill, 2026. The decision was taken at an Extraordinary General Body meeting held at Gate No. 2 of the Gujarat High Court on Monday morning, chaired by GHCAA President and Senior Advocate Yatin Oza. The GHCAA said the decision was taken in support of lawyers practising before the City Civil Court and Small Causes Court and in line with a resolution passed by the Bar Council of Gujarat (BCG). The protest arose over provisions of the Gujarat Rent Bill, 2026 that seek to shift adjudication of rent-related disputes from courts to revenue authorities. The Bill has been passed by the Gujarat Legislative Assembly and is awaiting the Governor's approval, and it provides for authorities including Deputy Collectors and Additional Collectors to hear and decide such disputes. Lawyers across Ahmedabad began protesting the proposal last week, with advocates at the City Civil and Small Causes Courts abstaining from work and blocking access to the Bhadra court complex. The BCG convened an extraordinary general body meeting on October 3 and extended its support, resolving that lawyers across Gujarat would abstain from proceedings before courts, tribunals, judicial and quasi-judicial authorities and revenue forums from October 5 until a satisfactory resolution of the issue. The BCG resolution said the transfer of the power to decide rent disputes from judicial to administrative authorities would affect lawyers, litigants and the public, and raised concerns over the workload of administrative officials and the process of recording and evaluating evidence in rent disputes. BCG Chairman PD Patel told The that the government had transferred rent-dispute adjudication from the judiciary to an already overburdened bureaucracy. The Council has sought a meeting with Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and the Law Minister to press for amendments to the Bill to restore the power to decide rent disputes to judicial authorities. The GHCAA said its two-day work abstention was intended to show solidarity with lawyers practising before the City Civil Court and Small Causes Court amid the ongoing protest against the Bill.

3. Supreme Court seeks to instil fear among offenders in suo motu case on Delhi-NCR rape incidents

Supreme Court seeks to instil fear among offenders in suo motu case on Delhi-NCR rape incidents

The Supreme Court on Monday said there is a need to create fear in the minds of goons committing crimes against women, noting a feeling that women are not safe in the city, particularly in some vulnerable pockets. A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and K Vinod Chandran made the remarks while hearing a suo motu case titled 'In Re: Recent rape incidents in Delhi NCR'. The bench observed that every woman in Delhi-NCR should feel safe even at 11 pm, whether travelling on the roads or on the metro, and said the police must create fear in the minds of goons and anti-social elements prone to committing such crimes. It further observed that what is important is to prevent a crime, not what is done after a crime is committed, and that rape is something which is not at all acceptable to any society. The apex court had on September 28 taken suo motu cognisance of news reports about crimes against minor girls and women across Delhi-National Capital Region, observing that such cases underline a systematic failure on the part of law enforcement authorities. The court took cognisance of the alleged gang-rape of a 17-year-old girl at Aastha Kunj Park in Delhi, the gang-rape and murder of a teenage girl in the Swaroop Nagar area of Delhi, and the sexual assault of a minor girl inside a moving sleeper bus which law enforcement agencies failed to intercept while it traversed over 47 km from Greater Noida to Delhi.

4. Supreme Court issues notice on quo warranto plea against CEC Gyanesh Kumar, no interim order on ECI decisions

Supreme Court issues notice on quo warranto plea against CEC Gyanesh Kumar, no interim order on ECI decisions

The Supreme Court has issued notice in a petition filed against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar alleging that he took decisions unilaterally in the name of the Election Commission of India without the approval of the other two Election Commissioners, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi. A bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, also comprising Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana, declined to issue directions to the Election Commission of India that its decisions be taken only by majority. Senior Advocate Vikas Singh appeared for petitioner Rakesh Singh. Singh told the court that the country was dealing with a very grave situation and that the CEC was acting in a manner completely contrary to the authority; he said the court should pass interim orders or the country will burn. He pressed for an order that for the next ten days only decisions by majority should be taken and that the statutory scheme should not be violated. Justice Bagchi told Singh not to put the cart before the horse and asked whether the court could come to an ex parte decision on this, adding that the respondents should respond to the notice. Last week, Singh had mentioned the plea before the same bench, which agreed to hear it. Singh had argued that the purpose of having a multi-member Commission was that a decision be taken unanimously or by majority, and that there was serious doubt about whether there was a decision of the Election Commission for the entire exercise of special intensive revision. The petition, drawn by Advocate Sudeep Gupta and filed through AOR Mudit Gupta, arises from contemporaneous, written, on-record material, namely file notings and formal communications by two of the three sitting Election Commissioners, Dr. Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Dr. Vivek Joshi, addressed to the Commission's own officers and, on at least two occasions, to the Cabinet Secretary of India. The petition records that between 28 October 2025 and 14 August 2026, at least fourteen distinct objections were made to steps taken in the name of the Election Commission without what the two Commissioners describe as the Commission's approval. According to the petition, these objections concern communications and orders issued in the name of the Election Commission without the Commission's approval; the absence, for over a year, of agendas circulated before and minutes circulated after meetings of the Commission; foreign travel undertaken without the Commission's approval; a substantive change made in July 2026 to the statutory Form 6 despite an on-file warning by Commissioner Joshi, concurred in by Commissioner Sandhu, that such a change could not lawfully be made without an amendment to the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960; the alleged progressive centralisation, in the Commission's own IT establishment, of control over access to the ERONet/ECINet electoral roll database, said to bypass the statutory Electoral Registration Officers; a change to the internal work allocation order removing a layer of oversight over that IT establishment, made, the two Commissioners say, without their knowledge, and which they purported to strike down; and the filing of appeals on behalf of the Election Commission before Court. The plea sought a writ of quo warranto asking the CEC to explain how he took such decisions, and that if the CEC is found to have exercised collective authority without a decision of the Commission, such exercise of authority should be declared invalid. No interim orders were passed on the ECI's decision-making.

5. Madras High Court dismisses as withdrawn plea challenging constitutional validity of Vettri Payanam scheme

Madras High Court dismisses as withdrawn plea challenging constitutional validity of Vettri Payanam scheme

The Madras High Court on Monday, October 5, 2026, dismissed as withdrawn a writ petition filed by N. Kalamani, a private bus operator from Erode district, challenging the constitutional validity of the Tamil Nadu government's 'Vettri Payanam' scheme. The scheme provides no-fare travel to 84.32 lakh women every day on 12,695 government buses across the State. The First Division Bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan granted the petitioner liberty to work out other remedies available to her under the law. The petitioner's counsel withdrew the case after the judges wondered how she could challenge a scheme applicable to the entire State. According to the petitioner, she held permits to operate private buses on a 47-km route from Erode to Vellithiruppur and an 88-km route from Kakapalayam to Andhiyur. The judges said her prayer against the non-collection of fare from women passengers in government buses alone, to the disadvantage of private operators, should have been confined to those two routes. They also pointed out that the petitioner had challenged only an announcement made by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay under Rule 110 of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly and a consequent release issued by the Information and Public Relations Department, but not a consequential government order issued for introduction of the 'Vettri Payanam' scheme from October 2, 2026. After the judges highlighted these flaws, the petitioner's counsel chose to withdraw the writ petition, which had challenged the constitutional validity of the scheme, with liberty to file a fresh case. In her affidavit, Kalamani said she was a widow with two daughters to take care of and had employed about 15 people whose families also depended on her transport business. She feared that hardly any passenger would step onto her buses on the two routes as a significant number of government buses were operated along those routes. She said the State government had come forward to spend a whopping amount of ₹6,000 crore a year for compensating the State transport corporations towards the Vettri Payanam scheme but had not extended the same to private buses. A request made by the Federation of Bus Operators Associations of Tamil Nadu to Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay on July 22, 2026, for extending the scheme to private bus operators also did not yield the desired result, she said. She argued that selective implementation of the scheme with respect to government buses alone would cause a huge loss to private bus operators and force them to wind up their businesses.

1. State of Maharashtra vs. Ramesh Sukrya Mhatre and Ors. (28.09.2026 - SC)(MANU/SC/1118/2026)

The Supreme Court of India addressed the issue of whether the High Court erred in granting bail to Ramesh Sukrya Mhatre and others, who were accused of assaulting medical professionals. The State of M

2. Central Bureau of Investigation vs. Anil Dixit (25.09.2026 - SC)(MANU/SC/1117/2026)

The Supreme Court of India addressed the issue of whether the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) must produce certain 'unrelied' documents at the stage of framing charges against Anil Dixit. The CB

3. Saurabh Bajaj vs. State of Chhattisgarh and Ors. (29.09.2026 - SC)(MANU/SC/1116/2026)

The Supreme Court of India addressed the conviction of Saurabh Bajaj under the Chhattisgarh Agricultural Cattle Preservation Act, 2004, for allegedly transporting cattle for slaughter. The court found

4. The State of Himachal Pradesh vs. Anchla (01.10.2026 - SC)(MANU/SC/1115/2026)

The Supreme Court of India addressed the appeal by the State of Himachal Pradesh against the acquittal of Anchla by the High Court, which had overturned her conviction for the murder of Mithilesh Kuma

5. Santosh Gurung vs. State of Sikkim (01.10.2026 - SC)(MANU/SC/1114/2026)

The Supreme Court of India addressed the appeal of Santosh Gurung against his conviction for offenses under the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. The core issu

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