[2] The next major success came in 1996 when the detailed inquiry ordered in 1996 by the Supreme Court into the "misuse" of the official position by then petroleum minister Satish Sharma in allotments of petrol pumps and dealership of LPG happened after the Common Cause intervention.

[9][10][11] The major threshold was achieved in this case on 9 March 2018, when a five-judge panel concluded that "living wills," or advance medical directives, permit consenting patients to be passively euthanised if they have a terminal illness or are in a vegetative state.

[15] Common Cause and the Centre for Public Interest Litigation, represented by advocates Prashant Bhushan and Cheryl D'Souza, asserted that "certain investigative agencies, including the CBI, Enforcement Directorate, and Income Tax Department, appear to have become complicit in corruption.

"[16] Based on reports and extensive data mining conducted by The Hindu and other media outlets, the petition asserted that the information disseminated indicated that the majority of the bonds were provided to political parties as quid pro quo arrangements by corporate entities.

[21] Its Governing Council members include economist Mr Nitin Desai, former Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations from 1992 to 2003;[22] environmental scientist, Dr Ashok Khosla, Chairman of Development Alternatives; industrialist, Vikram Lal, the founder and former CEO of Eicher Motors, India; former Secretary to the Government of India, Kamal Kant Jaswal of the Indian Administrative Service; former IPS Officer Prakash Singh, a former DGP of Uttar Pradesh, Assam and BSF; Right to Information activist Anjali Bhardwaj; author, publisher and educator Paranjoy Guha Thakurta; and democracy activist Nikhil Dey, the co-founder of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan.