Daily Supreme Court reporting that explains what the Court held, why it matters, and where each judgment sits in Indian law.
A Division Bench holds that lessees claiming through a trust cannot revive writ jurisdiction to protect possession once the trust's own special leave petition was withdrawn without relief.
A Division Bench of Justices Pardiwala and Vinod Chandran doubts whether Section 14B damages under the EPF Act are mandatory, referring the question while directing instalmental payment of dues.
Justices B.V. Nagarathna and R. Mahadevan dismissed an Article 32 petition, holding that Section 35 of the SARFAESI Act overrides inconsistent laws, rejecting the res judicata plea.
The Pardiwala-Chandran Bench held that a Trust is not a juristic person capable of suing or being sued, quashing criminal proceedings against an educational and charitable Trust.
A Division Bench dismisses Union of India's batch of disability pension appeals, holding the 2008 Entitlement Rules preserve the core claimant-protective framework of the 1982 Rules.
A Division Bench of Justices Manoj Misra and Vijay Bishnoi held that courts cannot read an unstated parameter into an examination question and second-guess the examining body.
A two-judge bench held that a three-year fishing licence over Sharda Sagar Jalashya is a profit à prendre lease, upholding a Rs.15.72 lakh deficit stamp duty demand.
A Supreme Court division bench held that India's sovereign assurance to Portugal capped Abu Salem's detention but did not convert his life sentences into a fixed 25-year term.
A bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe held that a personal guarantee integrated as a facility agreement carries the loan agreement's arbitration clause, binding the guarantor.
A bench of Justices S.V.N. Bhatti and N.V. Anjaria upheld the bar on a Rs. 57.74-lakh MCGC demand raised nine years after the alleged liability arose.
A Division Bench rules that Vedanta's escrow release under Buyback Regulations creates no statutory immunity from fraud charges under PFUTP Regulations, remanding the case to SAT.
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Vipul M. Pancholi holds that a former partner's share in dissolved firm property must be valued at the prevailing market rate, not frozen at the dissolution date.
A Supreme Court division bench held a baptismal certificate does not prove a POCSO victim's age under Section 94 JJ Act, but altered conviction to Section 376 IPC.
A Bench of Justices Sheel Nagu and Dipankar Datta held that compulsorily retiring an outstanding officer months after a merit promotion was arbitrary, perverse and mala fide.
A Division Bench of the Supreme Court set aside a corruption conviction, holding that Section 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act cannot stand without proof of pecuniary advantage.
A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant disposed of the proceedings after NCERT recalled 82,440 copies and a revised, balanced chapter replaced the offending text.
A Division Bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Atul S. Chandurkar quashed POCSO proceedings against a West Bengal school teacher, holding that physical punishment without sexual intent cannot attract Section 10 of the POCSO Act.
A bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Shree Chandrashekhar dismisses a Dera's claim of ownership over agricultural land, holding that neither revenue entries nor uninterrupted possession, absent hostile animus, can establish title.
A Division Bench of Justices J. B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran reversed concurrent conviction findings, holding that pervasive inconsistencies among close-relative witnesses raised a reasonable hypothesis of innocence.
A bench of Justices Pardiwala and Vinod Chandran quashed a false-promise-of-marriage FIR, holding that a mother's objection explaining the refusal negates deceitful intent under Section 69 BNS.
A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran accepted FSSAI progress on front-of-pack labelling but flagged gaps in thresholds, phasing and design, seeking further answers.
A Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Shree Chandrashekhar dismissed the Board's appeal, holding that contract service before August 2004 counts as qualifying service for pension.
A bench of Justices Pardiwala and Vinod Chandran cleared the path for the Sushant Aquapolis resolution plan by directing the SRA to develop a 24-metre access road around plot GH-1.
A Division Bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu questions whether Section 47-A stamp duty proceedings require proof of fraudulent intent, referring the issue for authoritative resolution.
