Judges
Supreme Court of India

Justice A.S. Bopanna

Supreme Court of India · 2020–2024
138 judgments in the LexStreak library · 132 with headnotes
Supreme Court of India — official profile
2024 INSC 40110 May 2024
Mrugendra Indravadan Mehta and others v. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation
In a suit over the shortfall in area of a plot reconstituted under a varied Town Planning Scheme, the Supreme Court held that a plot owner has no guaranteed right to a reconstituted plot of…
Civil Procedure / CPC
2024 INSC 39508 May 2024
Legal Heirs of Narender Kumar Kantilal Modi v. Life Insurance Corporation of India
The Supreme Court held that an insurer's issuance of an Acceptance-cum-First Premium Receipt with a retrospective risk-commencement date raised a clear presumption of acceptance of a life…
Civil — General
2024 INSC 35230 Apr 2024
SWAMI VEDVYASANAND JI MAHARAJ (D) THR LRS. v. SHYAM LAL CHAUHAN & ORS.
The Supreme Court held that a High Court had again erred in substituting a legal representative under Order XXII Rule 5 CPC without considering objections to the trial court's report, set…
Civil Procedure / CPC
2024 INSC 33925 Apr 2024
Shri Mallikarjun Devasthan, Shelgi v. Subhash Mallikarjun Birajdar and others
The Supreme Court held that a 2017 proviso allowing condonation of delay in filing a Change Report under the Maharashtra Public Trusts Act, 1950 is merely clarificatory, that a belated…
Civil — General
2024 INSC 34708 Apr 2024
RAJ REDDY KALLEM v. THE STATE OF HARYANA & ANR.
The Supreme Court held that compounding a Section 138 NI Act offence requires the complainant's consent, but exercised its Article 142 power to quash the cheque-dishonour prosecution and…
Criminal / BNS
2024 INSC 16104 Mar 2024Full text only
Sita Soren v. Union of India
Criminal / BNS
2023 INSC 99509 Nov 2023
Union of India & Ors. v. D.G.O.F. Employees Association and Anr.
The Supreme Court held that while the determination and grant of pay scales is generally left to expert bodies such as Pay Commissions, a court may intervene where employees holding…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2023 INSC 69709 Aug 2023
HIND OFFSHORE PVT. LTD. versus IFFCO – TOKIO GENERAL INSURANCE CO. LTD.
The Supreme Court upheld the NCDRC's rejection of a marine hull insurance claim for a sunk vessel, holding that the Class Certificate had been obtained without disclosing earlier engine…
Civil — General
2023 INSC 68008 Aug 2023
M/s. Isnar Aqua Farms v. United India Insurance Co. Ltd.
The Supreme Court held that the duty of utmost good faith in a contract of insurance binds the insurer as much as the insured and continues throughout the contract, and that an insurer…
Civil — General
2023 INSC 67707 Aug 2023Full text only
V. SENTHIL BALAJI v. THE STATE REPRESENTED BY DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND ORS
Criminal / BNS
2023 INSC 66101 Aug 2023
THE STATE OF RAJASTHAN & ORS v. SHARWAN KUMAR KUMAWAT ETC. ETC
The Supreme Court upheld amendments to the Rajasthan Minor Mineral Concession Rules that rejected pending mining lease applications and directed grant by auction, holding that a pending…
Civil — General
2023 INSC 37013 Apr 2023
PARSVNATH DEVELOPERS LTD. versus GAGANDEEP BRAR AND ANOTHER
The Supreme Court held that where a binding arbitral award has apportioned liability for compensation between a developer and a housing board in a fixed ratio, the Consumer Commissions must…
Arbitration
2023 INSC 32506 Apr 2023
The Commissioner of Income Tax 7 v. M/s. Paville Projects Pvt. Ltd.
The Supreme Court held that the Commissioner rightly exercised revisional jurisdiction under Section 263 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 to set aside an assessment order that erroneously…
Taxation
2023 INSC 31929 Mar 2023
PRASANTA KUMAR SAHOO & ORS v. CHARULATA SAHU & ORS
The Supreme Court held that under substituted Section 6 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 a daughter is entitled to a one-third share in all the partition properties, as a change in law is…
Property / LandCivil Procedure / CPC
2023 INSC 25217 Mar 2023Full text only
PETITIONS FOR SPECIAL LEAVE TO APPEAL (CRL.) NO. 11104-11105 OF 2022 MS. X v. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANOTHER
Criminal / BNS
2023 INSC 20403 Mar 2023
CAPTAIN PRAMOD KUMAR BAJAJ v. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER
Setting aside the compulsory retirement of an Indian Revenue Service officer under Fundamental Rule 56(j), the Supreme Court held that an order passed three months before superannuation,…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2023 INSC 18028 Feb 2023
Royden Harold Buthello & Anr. v. State of Chhattisgarh & Ors.
The Supreme Court declined to transfer to the CBI the investigation into NDPS cases against the appellant, holding that the power to transfer an investigation is extraordinary and to be…
Criminal / BNSConstitutional Law
2023 INSC 12915 Feb 2023
Ravinder Kumar Goel v. The State of Haryana & Ors.
The Supreme Court raised the compensation for land acquired for an Expressway near Gurugram to Rs.25,20,000 per acre, holding that a small-extent sale exemplar was comparable because the…
Property / Land
2023 INSC 904 Jan 2023
IFB AGRO INDUSTRIES LIMITED v. SICGIL INDIA LIMITED AND OTHERS
The Supreme Court held that the rectificatory jurisdiction of the Tribunal under Section 59 of the Companies Act, 2013 (formerly Section 111A of the 1956 Act) is summary in nature and does…
Company Law
2023 INSC 202 Jan 2023Landmark
VIVEK NARAYAN SHARMA v. UNION OF INDIA
The Supreme Court's Constitution Bench, by a 4:1 majority, upholds the 8 November 2016 demonetisation Notification issued under Section 26(2) of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 and the…
Constitutional Law
2022 INSC 128015 Dec 2022
NEERAJ DUTTA versus STATE (GOVT. OF N.C.T. OF DELHI)
A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court held that proof of demand and acceptance of illegal gratification is essential under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act,…
Criminal / BNS
2022 INSC 125405 Dec 2022
RATNAMBAR KAUSHIK versus UNION OF INDIA
The Supreme Court granted bail to a person accused of evading tax under Section 132 of the CGST Act, 2017, holding that the rival contentions on the quantum of evasion were for the trial…
Criminal / BNSTaxation
2022 INSC 125205 Dec 2022
SUKHPAL SINGH KHAIRA versus THE STATE OF PUNJAB
The Supreme Court holds that the power under Section 319 of the Criminal Procedure Code to summon an additional accused must be exercised before the order of sentence on a conviction, or…
Criminal / BNS
2022 INSC 121718 Nov 2022
THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH versus M/S SEW CONSTRUCTION LIMITED & ORS.
The Supreme Court upheld an arbitral award of escalation for sand transported from an alternate quarry, holding that the conditions of clause 3.11(A) were satisfied, officers had no…
ArbitrationCivil Procedure / CPC
2022 INSC 121618 Nov 2022
FOOD CORPORATION OF INDIA & ORS. versus ABHIJIT PAUL
The Supreme Court holds that demurrages imposed on the Food Corporation of India by the Railways cannot be recovered from road transport contractors as “charges” under clause XII (a) of the…
Civil — General
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