2025 INSC 134322 Nov 2025
THE STATE OF KARNATAKA BY ITS CHIEF SECRETARY v. STATE OF TAMIL NADU BY ITS CHIEF SECRETARY & OTHERS
In the Cauvery dispute, the Supreme Court declined to stay the Central Water Commission's permission to Karnataka to prepare a Detailed Project Report for the Mekedatu reservoir, holding…
Constitutional Law
2025 INSC 133520 Nov 2025
Jalgaon District Central Coop. Bank Ltd. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.
The Supreme Court held that the statutory first charge created by Section 11(2) of the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 prevails over the priority conferred…
Commercial / IBCService / Labour
2025 INSC 136119 Nov 2025
Indian Society of Organ Transplantation v. Union of India & Ors.
Hearing a writ petition on organ donation, the Supreme Court held that non-adoption of the 2011 amendment and the 2014 Rules by some States defeats a uniform national policy, that a live…
Constitutional Law
2025 INSC 132819 Nov 2025
All India Judges Association & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors.
A Constitution Bench answered what the criteria should be for determining seniority in the cadre of Higher Judicial Services. It held that officers entering the common cadre from the three…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 130811 Nov 2025
SURENDRA KOLI v. THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH & ANR
In a rare exercise of curative jurisdiction, the Supreme Court recalled its 2011 judgment affirming Surendra Koli's conviction and death sentence in the Nithari (Rimpa Haldar) case, holding…
Criminal / BNSConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 130611 Nov 2025
T. N. Godavarman Thirumulpad v. Union of India & Others
The Supreme Court directed that the Delhi Ridge Management Board, which had functioned since 1995 only on court orders, be constituted as a statutory single-window authority under Section…
Constitutional Law
2025 INSC 128806 Nov 2025
Mihir Rajesh Shah v. State of Maharashtra
The Supreme Court held that the grounds of arrest must be communicated to an arrested person in every offence under any statute, in writing and in a language he understands, as a mandatory…
Criminal / BNSConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 127531 Oct 2025
In Re: Summoning Advocates who give legal opinion or represent parties during investigation of cases and related issues
On a reference about summonses issued to advocates, the Supreme Court held that an investigating agency cannot directly summon a lawyer appearing in a case to elicit its details, and that…
Criminal / BNSConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 123615 Oct 2025
PRADYUMNA MUKUND KOKIL v. NASHIK MUNICIPAL CORPORATION AND OTHERS
The Supreme Court restored the Reference Court's enhanced land acquisition award, holding that market value computed from vicinity sale exemplars under Section 26(1)(b) of the 2013 Act was…
Constitutional LawProperty / LandService / Labour
2025 INSC 113306 Oct 2025
KAVERI PLASTICS v. MAHDOOM BAWA BAHRUDEEN NOORUL
The Supreme Court held that a statutory demand notice under Proviso (b) to Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 must demand exactly the cheque amount; a discrepancy (here,…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 116826 Sept 2025
Sanjay D. Jain & Ors. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.
The in-laws of a complainant wife sought quashing of an FIR under Sections 498-A, 377 and 506 read with Section 34 IPC. The Supreme Court held that the FIR made only vague, omnibus…
Criminal / BNSFamily / Matrimonial
2025 INSC 112216 Sept 2025
THE STATE OF HARYANA v. JAI SINGH AND OTHERS
The Supreme Court held that while land reserved for common village purposes under the consolidation scheme vests in the Gram Panchayat/State whether or not actually utilised, unutilised…
Constitutional LawProperty / LandService / Labour
2025 INSC 107908 Sept 2025
HARYANA POWER PURCHASE CENTRE (HPPC) AND OTHERS v. GMR KAMALANGA ENERGY LIMITED AND OTHERS
The Supreme Court dismissed appeals by Haryana distribution companies and GRIDCO challenging concurrent orders of the CERC and APTEL which directed pro-rata apportionment of firm and…
Constitutional LawCivil Procedure / CPC
2025 INSC 106702 Sept 2025
KIRAN v. RAJKUMAR JIVRAJ JAIN & ANR
The Supreme Court set aside a Bombay High Court order granting anticipatory bail to an accused charged under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, holding that Section 18 of the…
Criminal / BNSConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 105801 Sept 2025
The State of Telangana & Ors. Etc. v. Kalluri Naga Narasimha Abhiram & Ors. Etc
The Supreme Court held that the definition of 'local candidate' for the Competent Authority Quota under the Telangana Medical & Dental Colleges Admission Rules, framed pursuant to the…
Constitutional LawService / Labour
2025 INSC 105429 Aug 2025
IN RE : T.N. GODAVARMAN THIRUMULPAD v. UNION OF INDIA & ORS
The Supreme Court partly modified its earlier order in the Godavarman forest case, holding that fragmented forest land parcels must still be declared protected forest (subject to the…
Constitutional LawProperty / LandService / Labour
2025 INSC 103525 Aug 2025
M/s C.L. Gupta Export Ltd. v. Adil Ansari & Ors.
The Supreme Court set aside the NGT's imposition of Rs.50 crores environmental compensation, computed merely on the polluter's turnover without nexus to actual damage, and its direction to…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 102022 Aug 2025
VIKRAM BAKSHI AND OTHERS v. R.P. KHOSLA AND ANOTHER
The Supreme Court (Gavai and Augustine George Masih JJ.) allowed an appeal challenging a Delhi High Court order recalling an earlier judgment that had declined to interfere with a Section…
Civil Procedure / CPCCriminal / BNS