A salary-execution petition before the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court turned on two precedents whose citations would not hold up to scrutiny — one untraceable, one patently wrong. Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal used the occasion to lay down that every AI-generated citation must be independently verified before it enters a judicial order, and directed the judgment circulated to all judicial officers in J&K and Ladakh.
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The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh quashed the ED's charge sheets in the cricket-association probe, holding that without a predicate scheduled offence there can be no proceeds of crime — and that conspiracy alone is not a scheduled offence.
On 11 December 2023, a five-judge Constitution Bench unanimously upheld the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution and the constitutional re-ordering of Jammu and Kashmir effected by the Presidential Orders of August 2019 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019. Three judgments were delivered — by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud (for himself, Justice Gavai and Justice Surya Kant), Justice Kaul, and Justice Khanna — converging on the result and disagreeing only on the route. A digest of the judgments, the constitutional questions they answered, and the doctrinal architecture they leave.