Daily Supreme Court reporting that explains what the Court held, why it matters, and where each judgment sits in Indian law.
Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe held that refunding the lender's money to the buyer would be unjust enrichment, capped interest at the agreed 12 per cent and awarded ₹15 lakh in place of rent.
Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe voided a trustee's gift of temple inam land to Tamil Nadu, raised the Government's rent to ₹31,000 a month and ordered costs against the State.
Justices Manoj Misra and Vijay Bishnoi acquitted a Chhattisgarh man convicted of murder, holding that a recovered message of unknown authorship raises only suspicion and the recoveries were never linked to the deceased.
A bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Augustine George Masih and Sandeep Mehta held that blacklisting without the second-laboratory test the tender required could not stand once the batches expired untested.
Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu said gravity alone cannot justify indefinite pre-trial custody where investigation is over, the evidence is documentary and the trial has not begun.
Justices Aravind Kumar and Vipul M. Pancholi held that a no-interest clause ending in or otherwise bars pre-reference and pendente lite interest under Section 31(7)(a), while post-award interest survives.
Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu held bail orders that ignore video footage and witness identifications cannot stand, and remitted three bail pleas while keeping the accused on interim bail.
Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran quashed the prosecution, holding that a certificate issued by the competent authority cannot be a forgery and that a wrong date, corrected and never used for gain, makes out no offence.
Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu held that civil contempt is not an exercise of criminal jurisdiction, listed four situations in which an intra-court appeal lies against a contempt order, and referred Ram Kishan Fauji for reconsideration.
Justices Vikram Nath, Augustine George Masih and Sandeep Mehta refused to send him to a civil court, gave the university three weeks to verify his degree and his employer four more to release the arrears.
Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe upheld the Calcutta High Court's refund directions on their own reasoning, and told High Courts to police whether fee fixation committees are actually functioning.
Justices Aravind Kumar and Vipul M. Pancholi restored two cancelled sand-mining auctions worth over ₹100 crore a year, refused a remand, and halted the later tender for those two districts.
Justices S.V.N. Bhatti and N.V. Anjaria held that “receipt of such order” in Section 62 of the IBC cannot mean the day a litigant chooses to collect a certified copy, and dismissed the appeal 16 days beyond the Court's power to condone.
Justices Aravind Kumar and Vipul M. Pancholi rejected the Section 19(2) challenge on practicalities and then granted bail in a ₹6,210 crore money laundering case because process must not become punishment.
Justices S.V.N. Bhatti and N.V. Anjaria held the burden had been wrongly fastened on the third-party objector and remanded the execution of an ex parte 2015 decree for a full inquiry.
Justices Sanjay Kumar and Sanjeev Sachdeva decreed a 2007 suit outright, holding both judgments below rested on fundamental errors, and noted that no respondent appeared despite a status quo order.
Justices Manoj Misra and Vijay Bishnoi held the juridical seat was Goa on a holistic reading of the franchise agreement, and set aside the Section 11(6) appointment.
Justices B.V. Nagarathna and R. Mahadevan allowed an amendment the trial court and the Orissa High Court had refused, subject to costs of Rs 25,000.
Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran set aside the rejection as perverse and directed that the railway contract be awarded to the bidder who was shut out.
Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran modified a Section 11 order, holding on a prima facie view that the outcome would substantially affect the absent parties' rights.
Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu set aside the direction to absorb him, held the State partly to blame for its own silence, and moulded the relief in money.
Justices Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Alok Aradhe clarified their own common judgment, which the Union said was being applied to 49 Air Force and Army cases it never covered.
Justices Sandeep Mehta and Manmohan acquitted two men sentenced to eight and ten years under the NDPS Act, holding the identity of the contraband was never established.
Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Ujjal Bhuyan set aside High Court orders directing BSNL to consider officiating Rajbhasha Adhikaris under the pre-2005 promotion rules.
