Daily Supreme Court reporting that explains what the Court held, why it matters, and where each judgment sits in Indian law.
A Division Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and N.V. Anjaria set aside Allahabad High Court's anticipatory bail order, holding it ignored criminal antecedents and economic offence gravity.
A Supreme Court bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and Atul S. Chandurkar grants a retired IRMS officer notional promotion and refixed pension after finding three cumulative procedural failures by the Railway Board.
A bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and Atul S. Chandurkar capped a 30-year-old hire dispute at ₹62 lakh, directing release of deposited amounts to the Electricity Board.
A bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and K. Vinod Chandran modifies a 2013 arbitral award under Article 142, holding that contractual penalty clauses do not require separate proof of damage.
A Division Bench sets aside the Central Government's 2019 rejection of an IPS officer's VRS notice, directing MoHA to reconsider within three months in light of prolonged, unresolved disciplinary proceedings.
A bench of Justices K. V. Viswanathan and Vijay Bishnoi upheld a murder conviction but modified the life sentence to the period already undergone, directing immediate release.
A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Kotiswar Singh dismissed appeals against conviction in a 1983 mass violence case where a mob of 58 set a family home ablaze.
A Division Bench partly reverses a Madras High Court quashing order, holding that signatories to underlying loan documents face cheque-dishonour prosecution regardless of formal designation.
A Division Bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe rejects demolition of a 17-year-old mall, ordering regularisation at 2014 market value instead.
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta holds that a written majority-trustee resolution validly authorises a society, rejecting the Calcutta High Court's unanimity and first-vote rules.
A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh quashed a Karnataka chargesheet, holding that a third round of further investigation conducted without Magistrate approval was unlawful.
A bench of Justices K. V. Viswanathan and Vijay Bishnoi holds that an appellate court reversing an acquittal cannot remit sentencing to the trial court.
A Division Bench of the Supreme Court holds that separate railway service rules do not strip railway servants of their status as civil servants of the Union, restoring pay weightage to a retired Sub-Engineer.
A Division Bench upheld CESTAT's classification of n-Hexane under Chapter 29 as a separate chemical compound, rejecting Revenue's claim that flash point alone determines tariff heading.
A Division Bench of the Supreme Court set aside concurrent findings of the MACT and Calcutta High Court, awarding Rs. 14,90,000 to a permanently disabled labourer's legal heirs.
A bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and Prasanna B. Varale declined to reverse the Rajasthan High Court's acquittal, finding the prosecution's circumstantial evidence disjointed and insufficient to exclude innocence.
A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Pankaj Mithal questions the Union's delay in notifying the 2021 draft rules and asks all High Courts whether they will act independently.
A Division Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K.V. Viswanathan rules that Clause 16(a) electricity concessions were always confined to new enterprises, barring promissory estoppel claims by expanding units.
A bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and Prasanna B. Varale quashes criminal proceedings against a Kerala anaesthetist, holding that a nurse's procedural error cannot ground criminal negligence against an off-duty doctor.
A Division Bench confirms murder conviction where medical evidence showed the wife was killed by blunt force and then staged as a suicide by hanging.
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and Prasanna B. Varale holds that a High Court retains plenary powers to direct criminal investigation even while exercising testamentary jurisdiction.
