Daily Supreme Court reporting that explains what the Court held, why it matters, and where each judgment sits in Indian law.
A CBI investigation found the case against the father was not maintainable. By then he had lost his child. The Supreme Court has quashed the FIR and written safeguards that go to every criminal court and every police station in India.
The Orissa High Court held a challenge to an award both time-barred and filed in the wrong court. It was filed forty-four days after the award, and the respondent's own senior counsel conceded the limitation finding was wrong.
Two judges who heard the challenge to the 2023 Election Commission appointments law for five days could not agree on whether five more are needed. Between them they wrote 66 pages, and the papers now go to the Chief Justice.
A Family Court and the Delhi High Court both gave sole custody to a father who earns Rs 17,000 a month and is facing prosecution. The Supreme Court has stayed both, expunged the High Court's remarks on the FIR, and let the mother take the children abroad.
The Himachal Pradesh High Court quashed a Rs 23 crore PMGSY award on a public interest petition and ordered a re-tender within a month. The Supreme Court has given the contractor three months to finish instead.
Upholding the vacation of an anti-suit injunction, the Court holds that foreign proceedings still at an inchoate stage should not be halted, and that London was the convenient forum.
Twenty-four years after the trap, the Court holds that recovery of marked notes proves nothing without proof of demand, and sets aside a conviction the accused did not live to contest.
Losing before a Division Bench on the same submissions did not stop a second petition, and the Court holds the missing original document is a matter for trial, not a ground to end the case.
An arbitral tribunal that awarded 12 per cent for the pre-reference period exceeded its jurisdiction, and the High Court was wrong to equate the contract clause with an earlier one.
A stepson's claim that he alone inherited in 1949 fails, the Court holding that failure to prove an oral partition leaves the statutory transformation of a widow's interest untouched.
A Division Bench rejects a re-determination claim filed 45 years after the award, holding that Section 28-A runs from a reference court decision and not from an appeal decided decades later.
A Division Bench sets aside the dismissal of a father's writ petition and directs Karnataka to constitute a Special Investigation Team, barring every officer from the earlier teams.
A Division Bench restores a 2013 Kerala suit, setting aside three tiers of orders and holding that Order XIV Rule 2(2) cannot be used to carve a preliminary issue out of a trial already underway.
A Division Bench dismisses the State's appeal, finding the chain of circumstances broken by an interested witness's silence and a sighting that may have been impossible in the dark.
A Division Bench sets aside an NCDRC order against New India Assurance, holding the repudiation sustainable and faulting the commission for brushing aside two surveyors' reports.
The Supreme Court upholds the disqualification of an H1 bidder that borrowed the credentials of other firms without producing a partnership deed or any record of the claimed association.
