Judges
Supreme Court of India

Justice Abhay S. Oka

Supreme Court of India · 2021–2025
255 judgments in the LexStreak library · 247 with headnotes
Supreme Court of India — official profile
2025 INSC 78123 May 2025
K. UMADEVI v. GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADU & ORS
The Supreme Court held that a government servant's right to maternity leave is a facet of her reproductive rights under Article 21, and that two children from a dissolved earlier…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 77923 May 2025
SANJAY PRAKASH & ORS v. UNION OF INDIA & ORS
The Supreme Court held that its earlier declaration that the Central Armed Police Forces are an Organised Group A Service was not confined to the grant of Non-Functional Financial…
Service / Labour
2025 INSC 77823 May 2025
IN RE: RIGHT TO PRIVACY OF ADOLESCENTS versus
The Supreme Court, exercising its extraordinary jurisdiction under Article 142, holds that a POCSO-convicted accused need not undergo sentence where the victim now depends on him as husband…
Criminal / BNSConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 77723 May 2025
SAKHAWAT AND ANR. versus STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH
The Supreme Court acquitted two appellants convicted under Sections 302 and 307 read with Section 34 IPC for a 1981 killing, holding that the prosecution had failed to carry out a fair…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 76923 May 2025
THE RESERVE BANK OF INDIA versus M.T. MANI AND ANOTHER
The Supreme Court restored the dismissal of a writ petition by a Reserve Bank of India retiree who sought pension from his date of retirement, holding that financial constraints are a valid…
Service / Labour
2025 INSC 76323 May 2025
CHANDRA BHAN SINGH v. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH & OTHERS
The Supreme Court upheld a demand for 10% of the total bid amount as a District Mineral Foundation contribution on minor-mineral (sand) mining, holding that Section 9B of the MMDR Act does…
Taxation
2025 INSC 75221 May 2025
GANESHKUMAR RAJESHWARRAO v. MAHENDRA BHASKAR LIMAYE AND ORS
Deciding a batch of appeals on appointments to the State and District Consumer Commissions, the Supreme Court upheld the striking down of the rule constituting the Selection Committee for…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 74921 May 2025Full text only
DILEEP KUMAR PANDEY versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS.
Property / LandConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 74420 May 2025
A.M. Kulshrestha v. Union Bank of India and Ors
The Supreme Court quashed disciplinary proceedings against a bank officer, holding that once the bank had itself acknowledged a vigilance angle and sought the Central Vigilance Commission's…
Service / Labour
2025 INSC 74320 May 2025
Shital Fibers Limited v. Commissioner of Income Tax
A three-Judge Bench answered a reference on Sub-section (9) of Section 80-IA of the Income Tax Act, 1961, holding that it restricts the allowance of deductions under other provisions of…
Taxation
2025 INSC 74220 May 2025
S. JANAKI IYER v. UNION OF INDIA & ORS
The Supreme Court upheld a Kendriya Vidyalaya teacher's dismissal for securing a fake transfer order, holding that non-supply of the preliminary inquiry report vitiates a disciplinary…
Service / Labour
2025 INSC 73820 May 2025
RAMJI PRASAD JAISWAL @ RAMJEE PRASAD JAISWAL AND ORS. versus STATE OF BIHAR
The Supreme Court set aside a conviction where the trial court had put four identical and mechanical questions to each accused under Section 313 CrPC without confronting them with the…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 73720 May 2025
Rajni v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.
The Supreme Court declined to interfere with concurrent findings that a juvenile accused's date of birth certificate, not an ossification test, governed his juvenility, and upheld his…
Criminal / BNSCivil Procedure / CPC
2025 INSC 73419 May 2025
Shaurabh Kumar Tripathi v. Vidhi Rawal
The Supreme Court held that an application under Section 12(1) of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 is not a complaint under Section 200 CrPC, and that the High Court…
Criminal / BNSFamily / Matrimonial
2025 INSC 73319 May 2025
M/S PATANJALI FOODS LIMITED (FORMERLY KNOWN AS M/S RUCHI SOYA INDUSTRIES LTD.) v. UNION OF INDIA & ORS
The Supreme Court held that encashment of a bank guarantee furnished as security under a court's interim order is not "payment" of customs duty under Section 27 of the Customs Act, 1962, so…
Taxation
2025 INSC 72819 May 2025
HAKIM versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND ANR.
The Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a father and son for an acid attack under Section 326A read with Section 34 IPC, holding that recovery of the substance was not required where…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 71816 May 2025
VANASHAKTI versus UNION OF INDIA
The Supreme Court struck down the 2017 notification and the 2021 office memorandum which permitted ex post facto environmental clearance, holding the very concept illegal because it…
Constitutional LawWrit / Public Law
2025 INSC 68314 May 2025
Tukesh Singh & Ors. v. State of Chhattisgarh
The Supreme Court acquitted eight men convicted for a 2001 shop-dispute killing at Masturi, holding that eyewitnesses who claimed prior acquaintance with the accused had never identified…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 68014 May 2025
THE HP POWER TRANSMISSION CORPORATION LTD. versus M/S BRUA HYDROWATT PVT. LTD. & ORS.
The Supreme Court set aside an order of the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity which had apportioned transmission charges among three generating companies, holding that the Doctrine of…
Civil — General
2025 INSC 66713 May 2025
JITENDER @ KALLA versus STATE (GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI) AND ANR.
A three-Judge Bench, revisiting the guidelines in Indira Jaising-1 and Indira Jaising-2, held that the 100-point-based assessment for designating Senior Advocates has not achieved its…
Constitutional Law
2025 INSC 64508 May 2025Full text only
Sarla Gupta & Another v. Directorate of Enforcement
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 74606 May 2025
MOHAMMED ASARUDEEN v. UNION OF INDIA & ORS.
The Supreme Court set aside orders withholding the statements of protected witnesses from an accused under the UAPA, holding that the satisfaction required by Section 44(2) must be recorded…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 63006 May 2025
ARABIAN EXPORTS PRIVATE LIMITED v. NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD.
The Supreme Court held that a High Court was wrong to refuse to appoint an arbitrator because the insured had signed a full and final discharge voucher, the referral court under Section 11…
Arbitration
2025 INSC 60901 May 2025
M/S. COAL INDIA LIMITED v. COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS (PORT), CUSTOMS HOUSE, KOLKATA
The Supreme Court held that engineering and technical service charges of 8 percent of FOB value, paid by an importer to the foreign supplier's Indian agent as a condition of sale, are…
Taxation
2025 INSC 67730 Apr 2025
PAVUL YESU DHASAN v. THE REGISTRAR, STATE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF TAMIL NADU & ORS
A police officer's refusal to register an FIR, coupled with objectionable language to the complainant's mother, violates the citizen's right to be treated with dignity under Article 21 and…
Constitutional Law
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