Supreme Court

A three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant held on 9 September that while it recognised the individual autonomy of married women, courts cannot direct rape prosecutions against husbands while both the Indian Penal Code and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita exempt marital rape from criminal liability.

Hearing a plea on 10 September that many eligible candidates — mostly in-service government doctors in rural areas — were awaiting a reduction, the court asked the Centre to revisit its decision on the NEET-SS qualifying percentile, observing that super-speciality seats are precious and should not go vacant.

A three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on 1 September invoked Article 142 to close all FIRs over the July NEET-UG paper-leak protests. The court also directed the Centre to frame a pan-India policy to compensate the families of students who died by suicide after the leak.

The Supreme Court held on 3 September that the Bar Council of India and its chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra have no jurisdiction to discipline or penalise law students, and that only the universities where they are enrolled may act. The ruling came over the BCI’s action against NALSAR students who had protested a convocation invitation.

The Union government told the Supreme Court on 3 September that it had begun implementing a ₹24,000-crore Police Modernisation Mission, to run over five years, strengthening State police forces and the Central Armed Police Forces through greater use of technology. The submission came in a suo motu proceeding begun in 2025.

Hearing a petition by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay on 1 September, the court asked the Centre to respond on using totalisers — machines that aggregate votes from several EVM control units without revealing booth-wise trends — as a fall-back option. The Election Commission opposed the move, citing the absence of any legal framework.