The Supreme Court said that judges from Odisha and Jharkhand can decide on claims and objections raised during the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal. The bench also permitted the Calcutta High Court to deploy civil judges in the state with at least three years of experience to expedite the process.

The order came after the top court referred to a letter from the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court, who said that there were 50 lakh cases of logical discrepancies or unmapped categories to be decided and 250 judicial officers were available for the duty. Even if one officer decides 250 matters a day, it will take at least 80 days to complete the process, the chief justice added. Read on.

The Kerala High Court questioned the Central Board of Film Certification about the certification granted to the movie The Kerala Story 2 – Goes Beyond. It noted that the movie seemingly portrays a secular state through a communal lens.

The bench said that it would watch the movie before deciding on three public interest litigations seeking a stay on its release and cancellation of its certification. The petitions claim that the film may trigger communal tensions. Read on.

A Delhi court remanded Indian Youth Congress National President Uday Bhanu Chib to four days of police custody in connection with a protest at the India AI Impact Summit. This was the eighth arrest in the case.

The Delhi Police has alleged that Chib was the “mastermind” behind the protest and had been “communicating and monitoring everything” despite not being present at the site. It also alleged that he knew the incident could lead to a “riot-like” situation,

Chib described the allegations as an attempt to “insert riots everywhere” and called the protest a “simple act of criticism”. The Congress termed his arrest “brazenly illegal” and said that the party stood with him. Read on.

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said it was “deeply shameful” that three men allegedly stalked, molested and shouted racial slurs at a 25-year-old doctor from Nagaland in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur. The incident had occurred on Sunday when the complainant, who is in her third year of obstetrics and gynaecology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Gorakhpur, was returning to the campus at around 8 pm.

Two of the men accused in the case have been arrested. The police said they are searching for the third man.

“Racial discrimination and sexual harassment of women from the North East should not just be a headline, sensationalised, forgotten and revived every time a fresh incident appears,” said the Meghalaya chief minister. Read on.

The Union Cabinet approved the renaming of the state of Kerala as “Keralam”. The president will now refer the Kerala Alteration of Name Bill, 2026, to the state Assembly.

Following this, the Centre will take further steps to formalise the change. Read on.

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