A major Supreme Court roundup covered the NSA detention of Sonam Wangchuk, the conditional relaxation of the NCR firecracker ban for Diwali with “green cracker” caveats, and a high-stakes plea seeking to elevate the right to legal counsel during police interrogations to curb custodial torture. Separately, the Court criticized the Union government's resistance to adopting humane alternatives to execution by hanging. Meanwhile, High Courts addressed the misuse of the RTI Act, noting 476 frivolous applications, and issued a crucial order restraining the “strip and search” of transgender persons during a state survey.