Judges
Supreme Court of India

Justice HEMANT GUPTA

Supreme Court of India · 2021–2022
104 judgments in the LexStreak library · 96 with headnotes
Supreme Court of India — official profile
2022 INSC 108914 Oct 2022
ROOPWATI & ORS. versus RAM KISHAN & ORS.
The Supreme Court dismisses the claimants' appeal against a High Court judgment that increased motor accident compensation to Rs. 6,55,000. Because the deceased's age, wrongly recorded as…
Motor Accidents
2022 INSC 99922 Sept 2022
NARAYAN & ORS v. MANAGER ROYAL SUNDARAM ALLIANCE
Allowing the claimants’ appeal in a motor accident death claim, the Supreme Court held that the Tribunal and the High Court granted no future prospects, and in terms of the Pranay Sethi…
Motor Accidents
2022 INSC 100122 Sept 2022
K. Priyadharshini & Ors v. M/s Gammon India Limited & Anr
The Supreme Court restored the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal's award of Future Prospects at 40 per cent on the deceased's average annual income, which the High Court had declined to award…
Motor Accidents
2022 INSC 99020 Sept 2022
THE STATE OF KARNATAKA & ANR v. M.A. MOHAMAD SANAULLA & ANR
The Supreme Court remanded a suit over land claimed to be part of the Bhuvanahalli State Forest, holding that the Trial Court had denied the State adequate opportunity when its witness…
Civil Procedure / CPC
2022 INSC 95313 Sept 2022Full text only
GULF OIL CORPORATION LTD. versus THE STATE OF TELANGANA & ORS.
Civil Procedure / CPCProperty / Land
2022 INSC 88830 Aug 2022
Mahadeo & Ors. v. Smt. Sovan Devi & Ors.
The Supreme Court set aside Rajasthan High Court orders directing possession of 25 bighas to the widow of a disabled ex-serviceman, holding that a 1971 inter-departmental letter was not a…
Constitutional LawProperty / Land
2022 INSC 85824 Aug 2022
RAJBIR SINGH versus THE STATE OF PUNJAB
The Supreme Court acquitted the appellant of murder by poisoning, holding that the chain of circumstantial evidence had missing and weak links: the motive was not proved and the Chemical…
Criminal / BNS
2022 INSC 84318 Aug 2022
Ayillyath Yadunath Nambiar v. P. Sreedharan
The Supreme Court dismissed cross appeals against a Kerala High Court judgment that refused specific performance of an agreement to sell despite finding it genuine, upholding instead a…
Property / Land
2022 INSC 82011 Aug 2022
UNION OF INDIA v. RAMCHANDRA & ORS.
The Supreme Court holds that the sale price of developed residential plots cannot fix the market value of undeveloped agricultural land, and that compensation for the entire land of a…
Property / Land
2022 INSC 81711 Aug 2022
GITABAI MARUTI RAUT (DEAD) THROUGH LR. & ORS. versus PANDURANG MARUTI RAUT (DEAD) THROUGH LRS. & ORS.
The Supreme Court set aside concurrent findings that a property at Pirangut was not joint family property, holding that a written memorandum of partition and the mutation entry established…
Property / Land
2022 INSC 81210 Aug 2022
GAJUBHA JADEJA JESAR versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS.
The Supreme Court holds that an ex post facto Environmental Clearance cannot be refused with pedantic rigidity where doing so would shut a functioning industrial unit, and upholds the…
Civil — General
2022 INSC 81110 Aug 2022
Janabai Wd/o Dinkarrao Ghorpade & Ors. v. M/s. I.C.I.C.I. Lambord Insurance Company Ltd.
The Supreme Court restored and enhanced to Rs.11,63,000 a motor accident award the Bombay High Court had set aside, holding that a Section 166 Motor Vehicles Act claim is summary and cannot…
Motor Accidents
2022 INSC 80810 Aug 2022
Union of India & Ors. v. Gopal Meena & Ors.
The Supreme Court set aside orders directing a separate zone of consideration for Scheduled Tribe candidates, holding that the Tribunal and High Court missed the real controversy between…
Service / Labour
2022 INSC 77601 Aug 2022
Ajay Kumar Pandey & Ors. v. State of U.P. & Ors.
The Supreme Court held that the 3% reservation for persons with disabilities under Section 33 of the Disabilities Act, 1995 applies to an establishment and not to every cadre, restoring a…
Service / Labour
2022 INSC 74725 Jul 2022
UNION OF INDIA versus MAHENDRA SINGH
The Supreme Court restored the rejection of a Railway Protection Force constable candidature where the applicant filled his application form in English but wrote the prescribed paragraph on…
Service / Labour
2022 INSC 71913 Jul 2022
PRINCIPAL DIRECTOR OF INCOME TAX (INVESTIGATION) & ORS. versus LALJIBHAI KANJIBHAI MANDALIA
The Supreme Court allowed the Revenue's appeal and set aside the Gujarat High Court order quashing a warrant of authorization for search under Section 132 of the Income Tax Act, 1961. It…
Taxation
2022 INSC 71513 Jul 2022
SARJU MISHRA (D) THR. LRS. & ORS v. JANGI (D) THR. LRS. & ORS
In a century-old family dispute, the Supreme Court upheld the Deputy Director of Consolidation's equal division of a childless brother's one-third share between two branches, holding that…
Property / Land
2022 INSC 60119 May 2022Full text only
DELHI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY versus SUNIL KHATRI & ORS.
Property / Land
2022 INSC 52906 May 2022
SATHYANATH & ANR. v. SAROJAMANI
The Supreme Court held that under Order XIV Rule 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 as substituted, only an issue of law on jurisdiction or a statutory bar may be tried first, and res…
Civil Procedure / CPC
2022 INSC 52806 May 2022
SAMARPAN VARISHTHA JAN PARISAR & ORS. versus RAJENDRA PRASAD AGARWAL & ORS.
The Supreme Court held that inmates of an old age home are licensees in permissive possession, who may stay only while complying with the terms of the licence and cannot obtain an…
Property / Land
2022 INSC 51505 May 2022
BHAG SINGH ETC. versus UNION OF INDIA & ANR.
The Supreme Court upheld the compensation awarded for acquired land, holding that a distant, non-adjoining village's market value was not a reasonable yardstick and that a later…
Property / Land
2022 INSC 50904 May 2022
ASSET RECONSTRUCTION COMPANY (INDIA) LIMITED v. S. P. VELAYUTHAM & ORS
The Supreme Court held that a challenge only to a Registering Authority’s failure to perform its statutory duties under the Registration Act, 1908 does not oust the High Court’s…
Property / Land
2022 INSC 50102 May 2022
ARAVINTH R.A. versus THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE & ORS.
The Supreme Court upholds the National Medical Commission's Licentiate Regulations, 2021 and the CRMI Regulations, 2021 for foreign medical graduates. It holds that the Commission had power…
Constitutional Law
2022 INSC 49429 Apr 2022
THE NATIONAL MEDICAL COMMISSION v. POOJA THANDU NARESH & ORS.
The Supreme Court holds that a foreign medical graduate who did not complete clinical training in physical form at the same foreign institute cannot demand provisional registration under…
Constitutional Law
2022 INSC 49329 Apr 2022
WAQF BOARD, RAJASTHAN versus JINDAL SAW LIMITED & ORS
The Supreme Court held that a structure is not a waqf under Section 3(r) of the Waqf Act, 1995 without proof of dedication or user, and that the Board's claim lay on a different survey…
Property / Land
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