Judges
Supreme Court of India

Justice Aravind Kumar

Supreme Court of India · 2023–2026
65 judgments in the LexStreak library · 48 with headnotes
Supreme Court of India — official profile
2026 INSC 84212 Aug 2026
DINESH KUMAR v. THE STATE OF HARYANA
In a criminal appeal against a conviction under Sections 302/34 and 392/34 IPC resting entirely on circumstantial evidence, the Supreme Court held that the last-seen circumstance, the…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 84112 Aug 2026
RASPELLI BHAGYA KISHAIYA & ORS v. GENERAL MANAGER, WESTERN COALFIELDS LIMITED & ORS
In an appeal against a High Court judgment affirming the rejection of a claim for compassionate appointment on the ground that the dependent had crossed the prescribed upper age limit of 35…
Service / Labour
2026 INSC 77030 Jul 2026
VISHNU KUMAR GUPTA v. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND ANR
The Supreme Court held that no appeal lies under Section 374 CrPC (Section 415 BNSS) against a conviction recorded for the first time by a Sessions Court in appeal, reversing a Trial…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 72320 Jul 2026
COMMISSIONER OF SERVICE TAX MUMBAI v. M/S BHARAT PETROLEUM CORPORATION LTD. ETC
The Supreme Court held that oil marketing corporations selling Mahanagar Gas Limited's CNG at their retail outlets acted as commission agents and not as buyers, title in the gas never…
Taxation
2026 INSC 69313 Jul 2026
Asia Sugar & Chemical Co., Davangere v. State of Karnataka & Ors
The Supreme Court held that imported sugar was exempt under the Karnataka Sales Tax Act before the 2001 amendment, that the retrospective amendment confining the exemption to sugar…
TaxationConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 69213 Jul 2026
'S' (Child in Conflict with Law) v. State of Haryana
The Supreme Court held that after a child in conflict with law is committed to the Children's Court under Section 18(3), the Court must pass a mandatory reasoned order under Section 19(1)…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 53625 May 2026
Commissioner of Customs, Kandla v. Reliance Industries Ltd.
The Supreme Court held that imported n-Hexane is classifiable as a separately chemically defined organic compound under Chapter 29 of the Customs Tariff, not as a petroleum 'Motor Spirit'…
Taxation
2026 INSC 25619 Mar 2026
THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH v. RAM SWAROOP @ BARKAT
The Supreme Court dismissed the State of U.P.'s appeal, holding that abduction in order to murder (s.364 IPC) is not a cognate or minor offence of murder (s.302 IPC), so an accused charged…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 105 Jan 2026Landmark
Adani Power Ltd. & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors.
The Supreme Court held that customs duty could not be levied on electrical energy cleared from a Special Economic Zone into the Domestic Tariff Area, because Section 25 of the Customs Act,…
TaxationConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 146218 Dec 2025
Radhika T. v. Cochin University of Science and Technology & Ors.
Communal rotation under Section 31(11) of the Cochin University Act operates simultaneously with the two-year rank-list validity under Section 31(10): once a reserved post is filled in form…
Service / Labour
2025 INSC 146018 Dec 2025
RANJEET BABURAO NIMBALKAR v. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA & ANR
The Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the Bombay High Court notification appointing Kolhapur as an additional place of sitting under Section 51(3) of the States Reorganisation Act,…
Constitutional Law
2025 INSC 145718 Dec 2025
RAMESH KUMAR JAIN v. BHARAT ALUMINIUM COMPANY LIMITED (BALCO)
The Supreme Court restored an arbitral award of over Rs. 3.7 crore to a mining contractor against BALCO, holding that the High Court under Section 37 of the Arbitration Act impermissibly…
Arbitration
2025 INSC 144616 Dec 2025
NORTH EASTERN DEVELOPMENT FINANCE CORPORATION LTD. (NEDFI) v. M/S L. DOULO BUILDERS AND SUPPLIERS CO. PVT. LTD
The Supreme Court held that the North Eastern Development Finance Corporation could not invoke the SARFAESI Act against a Nagaland borrower whose loan of 2001 predated the Act's…
Commercial / IBCConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 133720 Nov 2025
RIKHAB CHAND JAIN v. UNION OF INDIA & ORS
The Supreme Court held that an alternative statutory remedy does not oust Article 226 jurisdiction but bears on the discretion to entertain a writ; where the statutory forum is the High…
Constitutional LawTaxation
2025 INSC 125415 Oct 2025
M. JAMEELA v. THE STATE OF KERALA AND ANOTHER ETC
The Supreme Court held that 37.50 acres in Wayanad developed as coffee and cardamom plantations before the appointed day (10 May 1971) were exempt from vesting under Sections 3(2) and 3(3)…
Property / Land
2025 INSC 120809 Oct 2025Full text only
REJANISH K.V v. K. DEEPA AND OTHERS
2025 INSC 120208 Oct 2025
M/S ANVITA AUTO TECH WORKS PVT. LTD v. M/S AROUSH MOTORS & ANR
The Supreme Court held that the COVID-19 limitation-exclusion period (15.03.2020–28.02.2022) applies even to the mandatory 120-day limit for filing a written statement in a commercial suit,…
Civil Procedure / CPC
2025 INSC 120108 Oct 2025
RAJNI AND ANOTHER v. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER
The Supreme Court held that under the no-fault regime of Section 124-A of the Railways Act, 1989, a dependant's compensation claim is not defeated by non-recovery of the ticket; once an…
Motor Accidents
2025 INSC 105901 Sept 2025
RAMESH CHAND (D) THR. LRS v. SURESH CHAND AND ANR
The Supreme Court held that an agreement to sell, general power of attorney, affidavit and receipt of consideration do not confer valid title to immovable property absent a registered sale…
Property / Land
2025 INSC 105129 Aug 2025
SMT. BHAGWATI DEVI v. STATE OF UTTARAKHAND
The Supreme Court set aside the conviction of a mother-in-law under Section 498-A IPC, holding that the evidence of dowry harassment was inconsistent and insufficient, and that courts below…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 104728 Aug 2025
In Re: Mepung Tadar Bage, Member, Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission
On a Presidential reference under Article 317(1) of the Constitution regarding the alleged misbehaviour of a Member of the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission connected with leakage…
Constitutional LawCriminal / BNS
2025 INSC 103223 Aug 2025
M/S SHAH NANJI NAGSI EXPORTS PVT. LTD v. UNION OF INDIA AND ORS
The Supreme Court held that an inadvertent clerical error in shipping bills, corrected by customs authorities under Section 149 of the Customs Act, cannot defeat an exporter's substantive…
Taxation
2025 INSC 100020 Aug 2025
PAWAN KUMAR TIWARY AND OTHERS v. JHARKHAND STATE ELECTRICITY BOARD (NOW JHARKHAND URJA VIKAS NIGAM LIMITED) AND OTHERS
The Supreme Court held that the appellants' appointments to Class III posts, made within sanctioned strength and after due selection, were irregular at best and not illegal, and quashed the…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 98413 Aug 2025
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL v. ISMAT AHMED AND OTHERS
The Supreme Court held that under Section 7 of the West Bengal Premises Tenancy Act, 1997 a tenant must, within thirty days of summons, deposit the admitted rent and file an application for…
Property / Land
2025 INSC 92001 Aug 2025
Ch. Joseph v. Telangana State Road Transport Corporation & Ors.
The Supreme Court set aside the medical retirement of a colour-blind driver, holding that a binding Section 12(3) industrial settlement guaranteed him alternate employment and that a public…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
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