# The Catch Up: CJP’s ‘historic’ praise, CJI's ‘gesture’ reply (1 September)

An episode of [3 Things](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406730235), 1 Sep 2026, 4:37.

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The headlines of the day by The Indian Express

## Transcript

[0:04] Speaker 1: This is the catch-up on three things by the Indian
[0:06] Speaker 1: Express and I'm Ichha Sharma. Today is the 1st of
[0:13] Speaker 1: September and here are today's headlines. Starting with major news,
[0:18] Speaker 1: as the Supreme Court used special powers to scrap cases
[0:21] Speaker 1: against those who participated in protests over the neat UG
[0:25] Speaker 1: paper leak. The courtroom witnessed an exchange of praises between
[0:29] Speaker 1: Chief Justice of India, Suryakant and the Kokoro Janta Party, CJP.
[0:34] Speaker 1: which came to being as part of a satirical response
[0:37] Speaker 1: to a remark by the Chief Justice. The three-judge bench
[0:40] Speaker 1: led by the Chief Justice scrapped the cases after Delhi
[0:43] Speaker 1: Palace and four state governments urged the top court to
[0:46] Speaker 1: use its special powers under Article 142 of the Constitution.
[0:51] Speaker 1: The CJP had announced a march on 5 September, accusing
[0:54] Speaker 1: the centre of going back on its promise of withdrawing cases.
[0:58] Speaker 1: Following the Supreme Court's ruling today, the protest was called off.
[1:06] Speaker 1: In other major news, lawyers representing Penguin Random House India
[1:09] Speaker 1: flat changes and deletions from several chapters of Sonia Gandhi's
[1:13] Speaker 1: upcoming book, The Indian Express has learned. They prepared lists
[1:16] Speaker 1: that were sent to the author in a back-and-forth lasting
[1:20] Speaker 1: at least two months until the publishing deal fell through
[1:23] Speaker 1: a few days ago. As first reported by The Indian Express,
[1:26] Speaker 1: these deliberations were cordial at the outset, but towards the
[1:29] Speaker 1: end got rough. While Alfred A. Schnauff A division of
[1:34] Speaker 1: Penguin Random House is the global publisher of Belonging. PRHI
[1:39] Speaker 1: was to publish and distribute it in India. The release
[1:41] Speaker 1: scheduled for 10th November was first announced by Shnoff, which
[1:46] Speaker 1: added that the first print run for the title would
[1:49] Speaker 1: be 1 lakh copies. Meanwhile, in a significant move, the
[1:57] Speaker 1: Coliseum yesterday recommended Chhattisgarh High Court Judge Sanjay K. Agarwal
[2:02] Speaker 1: as the Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court. The
[2:04] Speaker 1: decision came within an hour of Rajasthan's HC acting Chief
[2:08] Speaker 1: Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma going on leave. The SC Coliseum,
[2:12] Speaker 1: headed by Chief Justice of India Suryakant, also recommended the
[2:15] Speaker 1: appointment of Justice Pushpi Indrabhati, the second senior most judge
[2:19] Speaker 1: of the Rajasthan HC, as Chief Justice of the Jammu
[2:22] Speaker 1: and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court. The decisions were taken
[2:25] Speaker 1: in meeting yesterday evening in which a litany of allegations
[2:29] Speaker 1: against Justice Sharma were discussed. Sosas told the Indian Express
[2:33] Speaker 1: that while there was no formal discussion to ask Justice
[2:36] Speaker 1: Sharma to go on leave, the collusion will examine the
[2:40] Speaker 1: allegations against him. In other major news making national headlines,
[2:47] Speaker 1: the Delhi bus in which a 17-year-old girl was allegedly
[2:50] Speaker 1: gang-raped on 4 August, while it travelled unchecked by police
[2:55] Speaker 1: for 47 kilometres from Greater Noida to the city's Kashmiri Gate,
[2:59] Speaker 1: may not have been compliant with mandatory safety norms for
[3:03] Speaker 1: commercial passenger vehicles, the Express was told today morning. The vehicle,
[3:07] Speaker 1: a sleeper bus operated by a privately owned travel company,
[3:10] Speaker 1: was issued 11 traffic chalans, 7 in July alone, from
[3:14] Speaker 1: offences from speeding to driving without a permit. It also
[3:17] Speaker 1: has thick curtains over its windows that restrict visibility from
[3:21] Speaker 1: the outside, which is in violation of Supreme Court orders.
[3:25] Speaker 1: And it does not seem to have a functional CCTV
[3:27] Speaker 1: system as required by law after 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape
[3:31] Speaker 1: in the city. The law also says commercial passenger vehicles
[3:34] Speaker 1: must have vehicle tracking systems, as well as panic buttons
[3:38] Speaker 1: that must be monitored by emergency response mechanisms. It is
[3:42] Speaker 1: unclear if this bus had these measures. And in the end,
[3:49] Speaker 1: in news making global headlines more than a week after
[3:52] Speaker 1: a devastating flood swept through Nepal, the disaster is far
[3:55] Speaker 1: from over. Nepal's debt toll has climbed to thousands. with 4,000
[3:59] Speaker 1: people still missing, as rescue teams continue searching for survivors
[4:03] Speaker 1: and workers believed to be trapped inside hydropower tunnels. More
[4:07] Speaker 1: than 11,800 people have been rescued. While the search has
[4:10] Speaker 1: expanded with foreign assistance, including specialized Indian tunnel rescue teams,
[4:15] Speaker 1: India says its teams have established a foothold at the
[4:18] Speaker 1: Chilume site and probed 185 meters into a tunnel at Langtang.
[4:28] Speaker 1: And with that, this was all for today. This was
[4:29] Speaker 1: the catch up on three things by the Indian Express.

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