Judges
Supreme Court of India
Justice Dipankar Datta
Supreme Court of India · 2023–2026
139 judgments in the LexStreak library · 95 with headnotes
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Constitutional Law
42
Service / Labour
26
Criminal / BNS
24
Civil Procedure / CPC
20
Taxation
16
Property / Land
13
Civil — General
7
Commercial / IBC
7
Arbitration
3
Company Law
3
Family / Matrimonial
1
Motor Accidents
1
2026 INSC 891
19 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 849
12 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 / BNS
Taxation
2026 INSC 834
12 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 / Labour
Constitutional Law
2026 INSC 799
04 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 Law
Civil — General
2026 INSC 798
04 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 705
14 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 / CPC
Property / Land
2026 INSC 691
13 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 / Labour
Constitutional Law
2026 INSC 690
13 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 Law
Taxation
2026 INSC 689
13 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 / Labour
Constitutional Law
2026 INSC 688
13 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 / CPC
Commercial / IBC
2026 INSC 682
13 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 Law
Property / Land
2026 INSC 681
13 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 630
10 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 Law
Service / Labour
2026 INSC 629
01 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 597
29 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 Law
Civil Procedure / CPC
2026 INSC 584
27 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 562
26 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 505
18 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 / Labour
Constitutional Law
2026 INSC 464
08 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 Law
Civil Procedure / CPC
2026 INSC 445
29 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 366
15 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 / Labour
Constitutional Law
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 343
09 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 / CPC
Property / Land
2026 INSC 314
04 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 292
25 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 / CPC
Property / Land
2026 INSC 270
20 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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