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May 25, 2026, 06:37 PM - 4 min read
CJI Surya Kant urged lawyers not to react “so sentimentally” as the Supreme Court declined urgent hearing on petitions linked to the viral Cockroach Janta Party controversy.
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May 23, 2026, 10:01 PM - 3 min read
CJI Surya Kant urges students to uphold ethics, humility and values in digital era, says degree marks start of greater responsibility.
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May 22, 2026, 08:35 PM - 4 min read
Observing that there was a "perceived conflict" among different benches regarding the understanding of the 3-judge bench judgment in Union of India v KA Najeeb - which held that long incarceration can be a ground to grant bail in cases under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, regardless of the statutory rigours - a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court referred the issue to a larger bench.
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March 20, 2026, 04:59 PM - 3 min read
The nine-judge Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant along with Justices BV Nagarathna, PS Narasimha, Dipankar Datta, Ujjal Bhuyan, Satish Chandra Sharma, Joymalya Bagchi, Alok Aradhe and Vipul M Pancholi heard extensive arguments on the same for three days before reserving its verdict on Thursday.
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March 5, 2026, 04:16 PM - 4 min read
CJI Surya Kant urged technology-driven judicial reforms in Bhutan and offered internship opportunities to Bhutanese students in Indian courts during a lecture in Thimphu.
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February 26, 2026, 04:01 PM - 3 min read
Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said “accountability will be fixed” after the Supreme Court banned a Class 8 NCERT book over a ‘corruption in judiciary’ chapter.
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February 22, 2026, 03:32 PM - 3 min read
At the Eighteenth Convocation Ceremony of National Law University (NLU), Jodhpur on February 21, 2026, the Chief Justice of India urged graduating law students to ensure that the legal system becomes more accessible and understandable, cautioning against allowing law to become an exclusive domain guarded by complexity of the system.
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December 6, 2025, 05:41 PM - 4 min read
Speaking at a leadership summit in the capital, the Chief Justice of India, Surya Kant, said the judiciary will see reforms in the coming days, which include setting a predictable timeline for decisions in pending cases and a unified national judicial policy
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November 11, 2025, 05:25 PM - 3 min read
Chief Justice of India BR Gavai on Monday expressed deep sorrow over the tragic loss of lives in the car explosion that occurred in Delhi on the evening of November 10, 2025, describing it as a “devastating tragedy”.
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November 10, 2025, 04:49 PM - 3 min read
Assam has cleared Rs 478.78 crore for the first phase of a judicial township in North Guwahati, set to house a new High Court complex, as the Cabinet also approved the Polygamy Bill.
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October 30, 2025, 07:02 PM - 6 min read
The Union government on Thursday announced the appointment of Justice Surya Kant as the next Chief Justice of India (CJI), marking the first time a jurist from Haryana will assume the country’s highest judicial office.
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October 23, 2025, 08:10 PM - 5 min read
Justice Gavai emphasised that judicial authority ultimately rests not on coercive power but on moral legitimacy: the trust and confidence that citizens place in the impartiality, independence, and integrity of the judiciary.
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