Judges
Supreme Court of India

Justice Joymalya Bagchi

Supreme Court of India · 2025–2026
54 judgments in the LexStreak library · 54 with headnotes
Supreme Court of India — official profile
2026 INSC 109808 Oct 2026
Shubham Equipment Private Limited & Anr v. Rothwell Water Company Limited & Ors
The Supreme Court held that a Referral Court under Section 11(6-A) examines only the prima facie existence of an arbitration agreement, that the dispute resolution clause of a mother…
Arbitration
2026 INSC 105525 Sept 2026
Owners and Parties Interested in M.V. Nereus Progress v. Om Freight Forwarders Ltd
The Supreme Court held that a validly issued termination notice under a BIMCO BARECON bareboat charterparty ends the demise charter without physical repossession, the charterer thereafter…
Civil — General
2026 INSC 93201 Sept 2026
RAS AL KHAIMAH INVESTMENT v. MATRIX PHARMACORP
Upholding the High Court's finding that a clarificatory statement made before a Commercial Court was not an undertaking inviting contempt, the Supreme Court nonetheless declined to vacate…
Commercial / IBCCivil Procedure / CPC
2026 INSC 76129 Jul 2026
Vanashakti v. Union of India
A three-Judge Bench, re-hearing the matter after the Review order recalled Vanashakti-I, holds that prior environmental clearance under the 2006 EIA Notification is mandatory, upholds the…
Criminal / BNSCivil Procedure / CPCConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 71616 Jul 2026Landmark
Pranesh M.K v. A.V. Gayathri & Ors
A three-Judge Bench held that nominated members of a municipality — barred by Article 243-R of the Constitution from voting even in municipal meetings — cannot vote in Karnataka Legislative…
Constitutional LawCivil — General
2026 INSC 60430 May 2026
In Re: Delay in Pronouncement of Reserved Judgments by High Courts
In writ petitions over indefinitely delayed reserved judgments, the Supreme Court held that such delay violates Article 21 and, invoking Article 142, laid down comprehensive binding…
Criminal / BNSCivil Procedure / CPCConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 56427 May 2026Landmark
Association for Democratic Reforms & Ors. v. Election Commission of India & Ors.
The Supreme Court upheld the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision of Bihar's electoral rolls as traceable to s.21(3) of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 and Article…
Constitutional Law
WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) NO.599 OF 202622 May 2026
Pune Bar Association v. Union of India and Others
The Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of Section 63(4) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 and its certificate requirements for electronic records, and held that the…
Constitutional LawWrit / Public Law
2026 INSC 38317 Apr 2026
M.C. Mehta v. Union of India & Ors.
In a companion order to its Taj Trapezium Zone judgment, the Supreme Court formally disposed of the decades-old M.C. Mehta writ petition on air pollution in the National Capital Region and…
Constitutional Law
2026 INSC 38217 Apr 2026
M.C. Mehta v. Union of India & Ors.
In one of the oldest pending environmental PILs, the Supreme Court restructured the omnibus M.C. Mehta Delhi writ petition — filed in 1985 and swollen with hundreds of interlocutory…
Constitutional Law
2026 INSC 38117 Apr 2026
M.C. Mehta v. Union of India & Ors.
In the 42-year-old M.C. Mehta environmental litigation, the Supreme Court formally disposed of the original 1984 writ petition on the Taj Trapezium Zone and restructured its surviving…
Constitutional Law
2026 INSC 26920 Mar 2026
The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority, represented by its Member Secretary v. Dharmalingam & Ors. etc.
The Supreme Court held that Section 48-B of the Land Acquisition Act (Tamil Nadu) confers no right to re-conveyance of acquired land, that no time limit applies to utilising vested land…
Property / Land
2025 INSC 147319 Dec 2025
K.P. KIRANKUMAR @ KIRAN v. STATE BY PEENYA POLICE
Dismissing an appeal against conviction for trafficking a minor girl for prostitution under the Indian Penal Code and the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, the Supreme Court held that a…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 143615 Dec 2025
NAYAN BHOWMICK v. APARNA CHAKRABORTY
The Supreme Court held that a twenty-four-year separation with no hope of reconciliation amounts to cruelty to both spouses, and that spouses' strongly held, irreconcilable views amount to…
Family / MatrimonialConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 150210 Dec 2025
RattanIndia Power Limited v. Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited & Anr.
On a Change in Law remand under the Electricity Act, 2003, undecided issues stay alive and are governed by the law prevailing at the date of decision; MSEDCL's failure to cross-appeal…
Civil Procedure / CPC
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 135218 Nov 2025
SHRI DIGANT v. M/S. P.D.T. TRADING CO. & ORS
The Supreme Court held that a pursis by counsel claiming 'no instructions' is not a withdrawal of vakalatnama, so the seven-day notice procedure under the Civil Manual and the Bombay High…
Property / LandCivil Procedure / CPCConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 127631 Oct 2025
KIMBERLEY CLUB PVT. LTD v. KRISHI UTPADAN MANDI PARISHAD & ORS
The Supreme Court set aside the rejection of a tenderer's technical bid, holding that a bid cannot be disqualified for failing a requirement (that the solvency certificate be issued by a…
Civil — GeneralConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 126328 Oct 2025
P. SOMARAJU v. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH
Restoring an acquittal in a Prevention of Corruption Act trap case, the Supreme Court reiterated that an appellate court may reverse an acquittal only where the trial court's view is…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 124717 Oct 2025
Pride Foramer S.A v. Commissioner of Income Tax & Anr
The Supreme Court held that a non-resident oil drilling company which had no contract between 1993 and 1998 but continued to correspond with ONGC and bid for work was in a lull in business,…
Taxation
2025 INSC 122213 Oct 2025
The State of West Bengal & Ors. v. M/s Santi Ceramics Pvt. Limited & Anr.
The Supreme Court held that a ceramics manufacturing company whose land formed part of the quashed Singur acquisition cannot claim restoration under the directions in Kedar Nath Yadav v.…
Property / LandConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 116626 Sept 2025
STATE OF RAJASTHAN v. BHANWAR SINGH ETC. ETC
The Supreme Court dismissed Rajasthan's appeals against the acquittal of three accused in a murder-conspiracy case, holding that call detail records without a s.65-B certificate are…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 113119 Sept 2025
ALL INDIA FOOTBALL FEDERATION v. RAHUL MEHRA & ORS
The Supreme Court, filling the interregnum before the National Sports Governance Act, 2025 is notified, approved with modifications the Constitution of the All India Football Federation,…
Criminal / BNSConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 118616 Sept 2025
THE STATE OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH & ANR. v. MIHIN LALING & ORS.
An appeal over compensation for 'Jhum' lands in Arunachal Pradesh acquired for the Trans-Arunachal Highway under the special Balipara/Tirap/Sadiya Frontier Tract Jhum Land Regulation, 1947.…
Property / LandConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 112016 Sept 2025
Dastagirsab v. Sharanappa @ Shivasharanappa Police Patil (D) by LRs. & Ors
The Supreme Court restored the trial court's dismissal of a partition suit, holding that the sale of joint family land by the Karta was for legal necessity (marriage-related family…
Property / LandConstitutional Law
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