Judges
Supreme Court of India

Justice Augustine George Masih

Supreme Court of India · 2024–2026
106 judgments in the LexStreak library · 86 with headnotes
Supreme Court of India — official profile
2026 INSC 90421 Aug 2026
Bhumika Trust v. Union of India and Others
Reviewing its own judgment which had restored three years of practice at the Bar as an eligibility condition for Civil Judge (Junior Division), the Court declined to disturb the requirement…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 90020 Aug 2026
JAMNABAI AND OTHERS v. VASUDEV AND OTHERS
The Supreme Court set aside a High Court judgment that had reversed, in a second appeal, the concurrent findings of the trial court and first appellate court, holding that a revenue…
Civil Procedure / CPCProperty / Land
2026 INSC 89920 Aug 2026
RAVI KUMAR SINGH MALHOTRA v. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH
The Supreme Court set aside the High Court's reversal of an acquittal under Sections 302 and 201 IPC, holding that the prosecution's case—resting on an uncorroborated and doubtfully tutored…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 87017 Aug 2026
UNION OF INDIA v. CHIDIEBERE KINGSLEY NAWCHARA & ORS
The Supreme Court cancelled bail granted to a Nigerian national accused of trafficking commercial quantity heroin after he jumped bail on sureties that turned out to be fabricated, and,…
Criminal / BNSConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 86917 Aug 2026
NEPAL SINGH v. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH
The Supreme Court set aside the conviction of an appellant tried along with several co-accused for rioting and murder under the Indian Penal Code, 1860. Some of the accused, tried on the…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 84612 Aug 2026
PARAG KISHORE SATOSKAR AND OTHERS v. STATE OF JHARKHAND AND ANOTHER
In appeals against a High Court judgment declining to quash a first information report alleging cheating and criminal breach of trust arising out of a commercial distributorship agreement,…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 82911 Aug 2026
SHATRUGHN YADAV v. THE FERTILIZERS AND CHEMICALS TRAVANCORE LTD. (F.A.C.T.) AND OTHERS
The Supreme Court set aside the termination of a probationary employee for suppressing a criminal antecedent he was not shown to have known about, holding that suppression presupposes…
Service / LabourCriminal / BNS
2026 INSC 82511 Aug 2026
RAHUL v. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND ANOTHER
The Supreme Court quashed a dowry-death prosecution, holding that the appellant's admitted, unimpeachable service record establishing his absence from the place of occurrence, together with…
Criminal / BNSFamily / Matrimonial
2026 INSC 78703 Aug 2026
NIRMALA BAI DEVIDAS CHAVHAN v. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS ETC
Cross-appeals by the informant and the State of Maharashtra against a High Court acquittal (reversing convictions for murder and rioting) were dismissed; the Supreme Court held the High…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 76930 Jul 2026
S. P. CHANDRAKAR v. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH & ORS
The Supreme Court restores a bank employee’s promotion, holding that the Registrar’s power to frame service rules includes the power to amend them, that the requirement to lay rules before…
Service / Labour
2026 INSC 76429 Jul 2026
RAMASREY @ FAKKAD v. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH
The Supreme Court dismisses four Article 32 writ petitions by convicts challenging the constitutionality of their ‘imprisonment for remainder of natural life’ sentences, holding that a…
Constitutional LawCriminal / BNS
2026 INSC 75528 Jul 2026
MUMBAI PORT AUTHORITY v. NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR SCHEDULED CASTE & ORS
The Supreme Court held that the National Commission for Scheduled Castes' powers under Article 338 of the Constitution are investigative and recommendatory, not adjudicatory, so its…
Constitutional LawService / Labour
2026 INSC 74827 Jul 2026
KRISHNAN NARAYANA v. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND ORS. ETC
The Supreme Court upheld the grant of interim custody of seized vehicles to a company over its former director, holding that a registration certificate is only a relevant, not conclusive,…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 74727 Jul 2026
SANJIV KUMAR v. SHAKUNTLA DEVI AND OTHERS
The Supreme Court held that an earlier, even erroneous, rejection of an impleadment application under Order I Rule 10 CPC bars a fresh Order XXII Rule 10 CPC application by the same…
Civil Procedure / CPCFamily / MatrimonialProperty / Land
2026 INSC 73923 Jul 2026
Union of India & Ors v. Harbans Lal Verma
The Supreme Court held that intra-cadre promotions carrying the same Grade Pay are 'promotions' counted under Paragraph 8 of the MACPS, that the illustration to Paragraph 5 is only a…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 73823 Jul 2026
M/S BIRLA CORPORATION LIMITED v. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH & ORS
The Supreme Court held that stamp duty on a Government mining lease is computed on anticipated royalty and not on dead rent — dead rent being only a fixed minimum on the area while royalty…
TaxationProperty / Land
2026 INSC 73622 Jul 2026
Dilip Agarwal v. Rajshri Agarwal & Ors
The Supreme Court held that liability under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 requires a causal link between the use of the vehicle and the death — the expression 'arising out of' being wider…
Motor AccidentsCriminal / BNS
2026 INSC 73121 Jul 2026
VIJAYALAKSHMI R v. C. L. BALAJI
The Supreme Court dismissed a wife's execution petition seeking enforcement of an income-linked maintenance clause in a matrimonial settlement, holding that on a harmonious construction the…
Civil Procedure / CPCFamily / Matrimonial
2026 INSC 73021 Jul 2026
MADAN MOHAN (DEAD) THROUGH LRS v. THAKAR DASS (DEAD) THR. LRS
The Supreme Court restored an order of eviction on the ground of bona fide requirement, holding that the High Court, exercising limited revisional jurisdiction under Section 115 CPC, could…
Civil Procedure / CPCProperty / Land
2026 INSC 72020 Jul 2026
EHSAAN v. STATE OF NATIONAL CAPITAL TERRITORY OF DELHI
The Supreme Court, applying the doctrine of proportionality, modified a sentence of rigorous imprisonment for the remainder of natural life imposed under Section 376-D IPC to twenty years…
Criminal / BNSCivil Procedure / CPC
2026 INSC 69113 Jul 2026
Najma Khatun & Ors v. State of West Bengal & Ors
The Supreme Court dismissed a batch of writ petitions by West Bengal madrasah teachers and staff whose appointment claims a court-appointed committee had rejected, holding that…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 68913 Jul 2026
Union of India & Ors v. Bali Ram
The Supreme Court dismissed the Union's appeal, holding that Section 47 of the PwD Act mandatorily requires an employer to redeploy an employee who acquires a disability in service, that…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 62604 Jun 2026
SAHIL ABDULSATTAR MANSURI & ORS v. SAFIMAHAMAD FAFIRBHAI MANSURI & ORS
The Supreme Court held that the right to a speedy investigation is inherent in Article 21 and that constitutional courts must not remain mute spectators to prolonged investigations;…
Criminal / BNSConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 62002 Jun 2026
Sonal Talpada v. Veerbhan Singh
The Supreme Court upheld a decree of divorce granted to a husband under Section 13(1)(ia) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, holding that persistent denial of conjugal relations coupled with…
Family / MatrimonialConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 61301 Jun 2026
Darubai & Anr. v. Kamalabai & Ors.
The Supreme Court dismissed a step-mother's appeal in a fifty-year-old partition suit, holding that heirs succeeding under Section 8 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 take as…
Family / MatrimonialProperty / Land
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