Judges
Supreme Court of India

Justice Dipankar Datta

Supreme Court of India · 2023–2026
139 judgments in the LexStreak library · 95 with headnotes
Supreme Court of India — official profile
2026 INSC 89119 Aug 2026
RAJENDRA PRASAD v. STATE OF GOA & ANR
The Supreme Court declined to grant bail to an accused facing trial for the murder of a relative arising from a family/property dispute, rejecting his plea of parity with two co-accused who…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 84912 Aug 2026
UNION OF INDIA v. SUNIL BIYANI
In an appeal by the Union of India against a High Court order that, while dismissing the respondent's application for pre-arrest bail as not maintainable, nonetheless granted him protection…
Criminal / BNSTaxation
2026 INSC 83412 Aug 2026
SUDHIR & ORS v. HEAD OF HUMAN RESOURCE, DAINIK BHASKAR GROUP (D.B. CORP. LTD.) & ORS
The Supreme Court held that while Section 17(1) of the Working Journalists Act lets the State Government delegate its function to a specified authority, Section 17(2) contains no such…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 79904 Aug 2026
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA & ANR v. SRI DEVRAJ URS MEDICAL COLLEGE
Resolving a dispute over the Central Government's subvention payments to a private medical college following the TMA Pai Foundation 11-Judge Bench decision, the Supreme Court held that the…
Constitutional LawCivil — General
2026 INSC 79804 Aug 2026
SPO/CONSTABLE IRB SATPAL SINGH v. STATE OF PUNJAB & ORS
Though holding that the appellant's suit for reinstatement, having been framed without challenging his discharge order, could only have supported a claim for damages under Section 14 of the…
Civil Procedure / CPC
2026 INSC 70514 Jul 2026
Venkatesha & Anr v. K.M. Venkatamuniyappa (D) through LRs & Ors
The Supreme Court held that no court can grant relief on a case not pleaded, and that the first appellate court and the High Court had erred in decreeing a title suit on a conjectural…
Civil Procedure / CPCProperty / Land
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 69013 Jul 2026
State of Haryana & Ors v. M/s Faridabad Gurgaon Minerals & Anr
The Supreme Court held that royalty and dead rent under a mining lease are statutory levies that the State may enhance under Section 15 of the MMDR Act and the 1964 Rules despite silence in…
Constitutional LawTaxation
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 68813 Jul 2026
HDFC Bank Limited v. Kishore K. Mehta (Dead) through Legal Representatives
The Supreme Court held that an insolvency notice under Section 9(2) of the Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, 1909 cannot be issued on the strength of a DRT recovery certificate, since…
Civil Procedure / CPCCommercial / IBC
2026 INSC 68213 Jul 2026
Alok Kotahwala & Ors v. Jaipur Metro Rail Corporation Limited & Ors
The Supreme Court dismissed landowners' challenge to the acquisition of land for the Jaipur Metro car depot, holding that although the Section 5A hearing is mandatory and the Collector must…
Constitutional LawProperty / Land
2026 INSC 68113 Jul 2026
Nilesh Shah & Ors v. Securities and Exchange Board of India & Anr
The Supreme Court dismissed appeals by Kotak Mahindra AMC, its trustee and senior executives, holding that a close-ended mutual fund scheme must be redeemed at maturity unless validly…
Company Law
2026 INSC 63010 Jun 2026
BAKSISH AHMAD v. UNION OF INDIA & ANR
The Supreme Court held that the Delhi High Court had territorial jurisdiction under Article 226(1) to entertain a dismissed BSF constable's writ petition because the Union of India and the…
Constitutional LawService / Labour
2026 INSC 62901 Jun 2026
CA RAMCHANDRA DALLARAM CHOUDHARY v. ADANI INFRASTRUCTURE AND DEVELOPERS
The Supreme Court held that an appeal under Section 62 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 must be filed defect-free within the outer limit of sixty days, and that delay in…
Commercial / IBC
2026 INSC 59729 May 2026
STATE OF U.P v. ANJUMAN ISHAAT-E-TALEEM TRUST & ORS
The Supreme Court dismissed a batch of review petitions against its ruling that in-service teachers must qualify the Teacher Eligibility Test, holding that Section 23 of the Right of…
Constitutional LawCivil Procedure / CPC
2026 INSC 58427 May 2026
THE STATE OF TRIPURA v. PANNA AHMED
The Supreme Court held that the wide power to recall a witness under Section 311 CrPC must be exercised sparingly and cannot be used to fill a lacuna or protract a trial; it set aside the…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 56226 May 2026
Bency John v. Kerala State Electricity Board Ltd. & Ors.
The Supreme Court held that a railway servant remains a member of the civil service of the Union holding a civil post under the Central Government, so his prior Railway service must be…
Service / Labour
2026 INSC 50518 May 2026
State of Odisha & Ors. v. Sreepati Ranjan Dash & Anr.
The Supreme Court held that rules framed under the proviso to Article 309 supersede prior executive instructions, that an employee has no vested right to promotion to a selection post but…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 46408 May 2026
Indian Railways v. West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited & Ors.
The Supreme Court holds that Indian Railways is not a deemed distribution licensee under the Electricity Act because it merely consumes electricity within its own network rather than…
Constitutional LawCivil Procedure / CPC
2026 INSC 44529 Apr 2026
Bonatrans India (Pvt.) Ltd. v. Bonatrans Employees Union
The Supreme Court held that in a complaint under the Maharashtra Recognition of Trade Unions and Prevention of Unfair Labour Practices Act, 1971, where the employer disputes that the…
Service / Labour
2026 INSC 36615 Apr 2026
EX. SQN. LDR. R. SOOD v. UNION OF INDIA & ORS
The Supreme Court set aside the decades-old dismissal of an Air Force officer, holding that once the force elected to have him tried by a criminal court, his discharge — which stands on a…
Service / LabourConstitutional LawCriminal / BNS
2026 INSC 34309 Apr 2026
CHANNAPPA (D) THR. LRS v. PARVATEWWA (D) THR. LRS
The Supreme Court restored the concurrent dismissal of a second suit for declaration of title and possession, holding it barred by Order II Rule 2 and by constructive res judicata under…
Civil Procedure / CPCProperty / Land
2026 INSC 31404 Apr 2026
COMMISSIONER, DELHI POLICE & ANR v. UTTAM KUMAR
A recruitment schedule declared final in the advertisement cannot be reset for a lone candidate citing ordinary ill health; unanswered representations confer no right to reschedule, and…
Service / Labour
2026 INSC 29225 Mar 2026
SHARADA SANGHI & ORS v. ASHA AGARWAL & ORS
The Supreme Court held that while dismissal of a suit for default is not res judicata under Section 11 CPC, decree-holders who abandoned their own suits challenging the objectors' sale…
Civil Procedure / CPCProperty / Land
2026 INSC 27020 Mar 2026
NAVEEN SOLANKI AND ANOTHER v. RAIL LAND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND OTHERS
The Supreme Court held that land which was neither notified as forest nor a deemed forest when a statutory Master Plan came into force cannot later be declared a deemed forest merely…
Civil — General
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