In less than a month, three orders passed by a bench headed by Justice Jamshed Burjor Pardiwala has caught the Supreme Court in a bind, leading Chief Justice B R Gavai to intervene in the matters.

Indian companies will continue buying oil from wherever they get the “best deal”, India’s envoy to Russia Vinay Kumar has said, asserting that New Delhi will continue taking measures which protect its “national interest”.

Till now, in the case of acquittal of an accused by trial court or high court, either the state or complainant had the right to file an appeal. A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and K V Viswanathan last week extended the right to appeal against acquittal of accused to two more categories of people – those who suffered injury or losses in the crime and legal heirs of victims of the crime.