Daily Supreme Court reporting that explains what the Court held, why it matters, and where each judgment sits in Indian law.
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Pardiwala and Viswanathan holds that personal insolvency moratorium shields only the compensatory, not the criminal, aspect of cheque dishonour proceedings.
A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan held that clever pleading cannot disguise a benami transaction, restoring the trial court's plaint rejection and directing confiscation.
A Division Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan holds that Entry 34 List II covers betting on games of skill, restoring Tamil Nadu and Karnataka online gaming bans.
A Division Bench led by Justice J.B. Pardiwala issues a comprehensive Victim Protection Plan for trafficking victims while urging Parliament to enact dedicated anti-trafficking legislation.
A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan upholds GST on actionable claims from online gaming, ruling the 2023 amendments operate retrospectively and restoring a Rs. 21,000-crore demand against Gameskraft.
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Kotiswar Singh set aside Punjab and Haryana High Court bail in a commercial-quantity heroin case, holding Section 37 NDPS compliance is non-negotiable.
A Division Bench of the Supreme Court holds that once Section 33 proceedings are formally invoked, limitation for a Section 34 challenge starts only from their disposal.
A Division Bench of the Supreme Court holds that excluding married daughters from compassionate allotment of fair price shops violates Articles 14 and 15(1) of the Constitution.
A three-judge Supreme Court bench held that deducting state compassionate assistance from a mother's accident compensation, when she was never eligible for that assistance, amounts to illegal enrichment of the insurer.
A Division Bench found that non-communication of ACRs, destruction of service records during litigation, and fractional point-scoring without policy basis collectively prejudiced a railway medical officer's promotion.
A Division Bench of the Supreme Court held that separate service rules for railway servants do not strip them of their status as Central Government employees for pay weightage purposes.
A division bench restores an FIR quashed by the Karnataka High Court, holding that directing a complainant to pay subordinates falls within Section 7(a) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and S.V.N. Bhatti restores FIR No.0512/2025, holding that a 24-day delay in lodging a complaint is not by itself sufficient to quash it.
A Division Bench of the Supreme Court held that Department of Posts casual labourers who completed ten years under temporary status are entitled to superannuation pension regardless of formal regularisation.
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Augustine George Masih holds that heirs under Section 8 of the Hindu Succession Act take as tenants-in-common, extinguishing any karta authority over co-heirs' shares.
A bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and Atul S. Chandurkar dismisses MPRDC's challenge to a BOT concession arbitral award, reaffirming minimal judicial interference and party autonomy.
A bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and Prasanna B. Varale quashed a cheque-dishonour conviction after the accused paid Rs. 30 lakh to the complainant and compounded the offence under Section 147 of the NI Act.
A Division Bench of the Supreme Court set aside a Calcutta High Court order that allowed a defendant to reverse her own pleaded position mid-trial through an additional written statement.
Acting on a Supreme Court direction of 27 April 2026, the High Court Legal Services Committee of Meghalaya constituted a dedicated panel to assist in death sentence reference matters.
The President of India, exercising power under Article 124(2), appointed four judges to the Supreme Court on 1 June 2026, including one direct advocate elevation.
A Supreme Court bench found Tamil Nadu's encroachment removal efforts "significantly below" what the crisis demands, issuing fifteen binding directions covering eviction, moratoriums, and criminal action.
A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan holds that online gaming platforms supply taxable actionable claims from betting and gambling, validating GST on full stake amounts.
A Division Bench of the Supreme Court held that TTC MIDC industrial units were exempt from NMMC property tax only until MIDC transferred infrastructure maintenance to NMMC in December 2005.
A bench of Justices Pardiwala and Mahadevan lays down a comprehensive Victim Protection Plan for trafficking victims while declining to mandate a new investigative agency.
