Daily Supreme Court reporting that explains what the Court held, why it matters, and where each judgment sits in Indian law.
A Bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Prasanna B. Varale dismissed a candidate's challenge to Rule 41, holding a decade-old judicial recruitment cannot be reopened.
A Bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Augustine George Masih reduced a remainder-of-life sentence under Section 376-D to 20 years, citing youth and reformation prospects.
A Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misra held that non-compliance with the Section 61(2) opportunity notice and 23 years of prosecution delay vitiated the FERA complaint.
A Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Ujjal Bhuyan held murder carries life imprisonment as its minimum punishment, making it a heinous offence, and dismissed the juvenile's appeal.
A division bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Prasanna B. Varale affirms conviction under Sections 302 and 201 IPC, holding that non-recovery of a body does not defeat a murder charge when other evidence is cogent.
A Bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Vipul M. Pancholi held that a writ court cannot reweigh evidence-based appellate findings and cannot decide ownership questions without hearing affected parties.
A Bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Vipul M. Pancholi held that Section 97's non obstante clause overrides Section 93, leaving negligence unproved in an owner's-risk consignment.
A three-judge bench held nominated municipal members cannot vote in Legislative Council elections, upholding recount that excluded 12 such votes and unseated the returned candidate.
A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta directed every state and Union Territory to notify a compassionate release policy within three months, protecting prisoner dignity under Article 21.
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Vipul M. Pancholi holds that limitation for probate accrues when necessity arises, restoring a long-delayed petition to the Civil Court.
A Division Bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Vipul M. Pancholi found the High Court's two-paragraph reversal of a Will dispute decree wholly unreasoned and its adverse remark against a trial judge impermissible.
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta acquits three men of murder charges, finding the FIR was a post-investigation fabrication and the prosecution witnesses were not present at the crime scene.
A bench of Justices K.V. Viswanathan and Alok Aradhe held a clause for refund of earnest money is no bar to specific performance, restoring a buyer's decree.
A Division Bench held that appellants who abandoned their Section 5A hearing and raised unmeritorious objections could not derail acquisition of 27 hectares for a metro car depot.
A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Prasanna B. Varale affirmed that conscious possession, not bare recovery, must be established under the Arms Act.
A Bench of Justices K.V. Viswanathan and Vijay Bishnoi held the Gauhati High Court wrongly entertained a revision under Article 227 against an arbitral tribunal's jurisdictional order, and revived arbitration.
A bench of Justices Pardiwala and Misra remits a property title dispute to the Kerala High Court, faulting it for deciding a second appeal without formulating any substantial question of law and for misreading Section 68 of the Evidence Act.
A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Vipul M. Pancholi restores a trial court decree, ruling a unilateral rectification deed cannot alter the very subject matter of a prior conveyance.
A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma held that statutory power to revise royalty is an implied condition of a mining lease, reversing the High Court.
A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh dismissed Levitate Mobile's appeal, holding that voluminous evidence cannot dilute the statutory rigour requiring timely disclosure.
A bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe held negligence alone cannot place an advocate on the IBA fraud Caution List, restoring writ scrutiny under Article 226.
A Bench of Justices Manoj Misra and Manmohan set aside CAT and Karnataka High Court orders, holding averaging of PMS and Work Report marks was reading words into the promotion rules.
A Division Bench led by Justice Sanjay Karol holds that salaried claimants require only the last ITR while self-employed decedents need up to three years' average income.
Justices Nagarathna and Bhuyan held Section 9 of the Chhattisgarh Rajya Suraksha Adhiniyam does not exclude Section 5, condoning delay and restoring an externment appeal.
