Daily Supreme Court reporting that explains what the Court held, why it matters, and where each judgment sits in Indian law.
Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta hold that the Bombay High Court gave no reason for reversing its own prima facie view eleven days later, and set that order aside.
Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe set aside the NCLAT order, restore the Greenopolis insolvency to its original number, and lay down five principles on fraudulent initiation.
Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and Manmohan restore a conviction set aside by the Kerala High Court, holding that dispatch to the correct address raises the presumption whoever receives it.
Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Atul S. Chandurkar quash a life sentence affirmed by the Sikkim High Court, finding the chain of circumstantial evidence broken at every link.
Justices Manoj Misra and Vijay Bishnoi uphold a Himachal Pradesh acquittal in a double murder, faulting an investigation that recorded witnesses to create evidence rather than collect it.
Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe set aside a sale certificate issued to a firm that neither bid nor existed on the date of the auction.
Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe quash an order adjusting an alleged overpayment on two earlier roads against running bills due under three unrelated later contracts.
Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran hold the reverse burden under the Chhattisgarh cattle law applies only once the ingredients of the offence are proved.
Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu set aside the Sambhal NSA detention, holding an involuntary police confession cannot found preventive detention, and ordered Uttar Pradesh to pay Rs 10 lakh.
Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu set aside the High Court's distance-based rates and its severance cap, restoring uniform compensation in 47 appeals over the Aspal Extension Drain.
Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu set aside Rajasthan High Court refusals, holding pre-trial custody cannot become punishment where charges are unframed and two accused absconding.
Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran set aside concurrent decrees for specific performance, holding the suit barred under Order II Rule 2 and the oral contract unproved.
A willingness to pay is not proof of capacity to pay. The Court upholds forfeiture of an entire liquidation deposit, not merely the earnest money, where the auction notice said so.
Mediation had already failed twice. Using Article 142, the Supreme Court dissolves a marriage on irretrievable breakdown, quashes all proceedings between the parties, and bars either side from filing again.
Closing a dispute that began with the division of Bihar in 2000, the Supreme Court orders Rs 1 lakh to every daily-wage worker, 12% interest on provident fund dues, and the names of everyone paid put online within four weeks.
On a question Indian courts had never settled, and on which four foreign courts split two-two, the Court holds that a valid termination notice ends a bareboat charter on its own — and vacates the arrest of the M.V. Nereus Progress at Tuticorin.
Once an arbitral tribunal exists, interim protection belongs to it. The Supreme Court appoints a sole arbitrator in the Kinetic Green–Saera Electric dispute and clears both orders below out of his way.
Two railway witnesses admitted they never searched the dead man's pockets. The Supreme Court restores the Tribunal's award to his parents and directs the Railways to pay within thirty days.
A conviction cannot rest on half a witness. Seventeen years after the FIR, and after six years already served, the Supreme Court sets aside a rape conviction that two courts had built on evidence one of them had already rejected.
A ground raised for the first time in revision, on a precedent about how defence evidence is taken, sent a completed Section 138 trial back to the defence-evidence stage. The Supreme Court calls it the ingenuity of the lawyer.
A litigant arguing his own case was told his appeal did not lie, after a different judge had admitted it. The Supreme Court upheld the rejection, explained why that is not inconsistency, and gave him a month to start again.
Two courts held that only the Chief Security Officer could have appointed him, so a subordinate could not remove him. The Supreme Court went to the Battalion Order and found they had the appointing authority wrong.
The power to put a life sentence beyond the reach of remission belongs to the constitutional courts alone. A Sessions Court used it, the High Court did not notice, and the Supreme Court has substituted twenty-five years.
Rather than order a retrial, three judges sent the principal witness back for further cross-examination seven years on. The conviction survived it. The death sentence did not.
