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1. Gujarat court sentences three men to life imprisonment for cow slaughter under animal preservation law

A Kalol court in Gandhinagar district sentenced Vasim, 34, of Juhapura; Mohammad Rafiq, 28, of Behrampura; and Asfak alias Salman, 19, of Fatehwadi, Ahmedabad, to life imprisonment for cow slaughter.

2. Supreme Court seeks NCLT, NCLAT staffing proposals, flags ministry control

The Supreme Court, hearing a suo motu case on infrastructure deficiencies and staff shortages at the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), said

Supreme Court seeks NCLT, NCLAT staffing proposals, flags ministry control

The Supreme Court, hearing a suo motu case on infrastructure deficiencies and staff shortages at the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), said the Ministry of Corporate Affairs had completely hijacked the NCLT's administration and was impinging on its autonomy. A bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, with justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana, said the NCLT president must be allowed to work with autonomy. The court considered concerns over the ministry outsourcing recruitment of administrative personnel to a private company; a lawyer for contractual employees said a contract awarded on October 6 to a foreign company operating in India would deploy deputy registrars, assistant registrars and stenographers and could displace existing contractual employees from November 1 or 2. The bench said it would not protect contractual employees merely because they had served for years or allow private contractors to determine staffing, and indicated that appointment authority should rest with the NCLT president. It referred to allegations of misconduct by some contractual staff, including removal of judicial records and registration of criminal cases. On staffing, the court was told that only 67 of 320 sanctioned regular administrative posts at the NCLT were filled and 16 judicial and technical member posts were vacant. The NCLT Bar Association said infrastructure problems at the Delhi principal bench had shut floors and left courts functioning at half strength. Attorney General R Venkataramani, for the Centre, said appointment recommendations were in the pipeline and proposed a joint meeting. The bench asked the NCLT and NCLAT presidents to submit proposals on infrastructure, personnel and administrative support within four weeks, covering land and buildings, supporting staff and the desirability of an officer of deputy registrar or joint registrar rank at every bench for judicial records. It requested the attorney general to press the government on basic amenities and issued notice on a connected petition challenging the outsourcing arrangement.

3. CBI probes alleged manipulation of funds of over 350 PNB account holders in Greater Noida

The CBI has begun investigating alleged manipulation of deposits and fixed deposits by staff at the Aichhar branch of Punjab National Bank in Greater Noida. More than 350 account holders have submitte

4. Supreme Court seeks bank liability and compensation for digital arrest fraud losses

Supreme Court seeks bank liability and compensation for digital arrest fraud losses

The Supreme Court on Thursday said any mechanism to curb digital arrest frauds must provide for prosecution of bank officials found to have colluded with fraudsters and must require financial institutions to compensate victims if a fraud resulted from the bank's failure. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, and comprising justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana, said the RBI's proposed regulatory measures must mandate financial institutions to indemnify digital arrest or cyber fraud victims for suitable compensation not less than the amount lost by the customer where the fraud occurred as a result of the financial institution's failure. The bench said banks must be held accountable and that if no liability was placed under the proposed guidelines, the court would ensure it. It added that the RBI, as banking regulator, should go beyond issuing guidelines and enforce them by imposing strict liability on banks. The court was told the RBI is finalising draft KYC guidelines and expects to notify them by November 30; the bench said it wanted to examine the document before finalisation and would pass further orders after that. The court was also told that the RBI's new compensation rules for electronic banking fraud, effective in January, pay victims at most ₹25,000 and only for losses up to ₹50,000. The court noted banks can recover their own losses through the SARFAESI Act and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code while customers who lose money to fraud have no such remedy. It asked banks to build preventive systems that flag unusually large transactions against an account's past history. Attorney general R Venkataramani, for the Centre, said an inter-departmental committee and the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre were examining all aspects and the Ministry of Home Affairs was preparing a standard operating procedure dealing with bank liability; he said digital arrest frauds had come down, citing I4C status report figures of 123,672 cases in 2024, 58,239 in 2025, and 21,928 this year until September 1. Senior advocate NS Nappinai, amicus curiae, said digital arrest cases were still taking place and fixing liability on banks was essential.

5. Supreme Court seeks NCLT, NCLAT proposals on infrastructure and staffing, flags ministry control

Supreme Court seeks NCLT, NCLAT proposals on infrastructure and staffing, flags ministry control

The Supreme Court on Thursday observed that the Ministry of Corporate Affairs had completely hijacked the National Company Law Tribunal and the appellate National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, impinging on their autonomy. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana was hearing petitioners who complained about shoddy infrastructure, lack of support staff and large vacancies hampering NCLT, which adjudicates corporate civil disputes, company law violations and insolvency proceedings and had approved resolution plans worth Rs 55,000 crore in financial year 2024-25. The court sought detailed proposals on infrastructure and staffing from the presidents of NCLT and NCLAT in four weeks. Appearing for the NCLT Bar Association, senior advocate Sanjiv Sen said roofs of certain floors in the NCLT building were collapsing and that 253 of 320 regular posts in NCLT were vacant. Senior advocate Meenakshi Arora said the ministry had outsourced recruitment of contractual employees to a foreign firm, which could jeopardise the integrity of the financial adjudicatory body, and that existing contractual employees had served eight years and must not be displaced. The CJI said the court was not approving contractual recruitment and that recruitment must be done through the Union Public Service Commission or Staff Selection Commission. The bench declined to stay terminations at the behest of contractual staff, gave full autonomy to the presidents of NCLT and NCLAT on the issue and asked how soon it should happen. The CJI said contractual employment meant backdoor entry and that contractual employees were harassing judicial members, and said past and present contractual employees should go.

1. The Supreme Industries Limited vs. Supremo India Private Limited (28.10.2026 - SC)(MANU/SC/1235/2026)

The Supreme Court of India addressed a dispute between The Supreme Industries Limited and Supremo India Private Limited concerning trademark infringement. Both parties filed commercial suits in differ

2. South Bihar Power Distribution Company Ltd. vs. India Power Corporation Ltd. and Ors. (28.10.2026 - SC)(MANU/SC/1234/2026)

The Supreme Court of India addressed the dispute between South Bihar Power Distribution Company Ltd. and India Power Corporation Ltd. regarding the extension of an arbitral tribunal's mandate under th

3. State of Rajasthan vs. Jhabra Ram (28.10.2026 - SC)(MANU/SC/1233/2026)

The Supreme Court of India addressed the appeal by the State of Rajasthan against the High Court's decision to grant bail to Jhabra Ram, accused of espionage under the Official Secrets Act, 1923, and

4. Chetan Sabharwal vs. Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax Circle 28(1), New Delhi (28.10.2026 - SC)(MANU/SC/1232/2026)

The Supreme Court of India addressed whether the notice dated 31.03.2015 for reopening assessments of Chetan Sabharwal and Nitin Sabharwal for AY 2008-09 and AY 2009-10 was valid under Sections 147-14

5. Union of India (UOI) and Ors. vs. Narender Kumar (28.10.2026 - SC)(MANU/SC/1231/2026)

The Supreme Court of India addressed the dispute between the Union of India and Narender Kumar regarding the entitlement to War Injury Pension instead of Disability Pension for Kumar's Rheumatoid Arth

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