Judges
Supreme Court of India

Justice K.V. Viswanathan

Supreme Court of India · 2023–2026
152 judgments in the LexStreak library · 94 with headnotes
Supreme Court of India — official profile
2026 INSC 88118 Aug 2026
M/S. UTKARSH ENTERPRISES & ORS v. UNION OF INDIA & ORS
The Supreme Court dismissed appeals against a Delhi High Court judgment that had rejected a challenge to eligibility conditions in tenders floated by the Directorate of Education,…
Civil — GeneralConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 86617 Aug 2026
KESHVENDRA SINGH v. SHANKAR SINGH AND ANR
The Supreme Court set aside a High Court order that had directed a sessions trial for murder to be kept in abeyance pending conclusion of proceedings under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and…
Criminal / BNSConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 82811 Aug 2026
National Projects Construction Corporation Ltd v. Ishvakoo (India) Pvt. Ltd
The Supreme Court upheld a direction under Section 9 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 requiring an award-holder to deposit Rs. 3.5 crores realised by encashing bank guarantees,…
ArbitrationCivil Procedure / CPC
2026 INSC 70114 Jul 2026
Manash Kamal Bezboruah v. M/S Bokahola Tea Company Private Limited & Ors
The Supreme Court held that a revision petition under Article 227 against an Arbitral Tribunal's order rejecting a Section 16 jurisdictional objection is maintainable only where the order…
ArbitrationConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 70014 Jul 2026
Jaspal Singh v. Ashwani Kumar
The Supreme Court held that a clause requiring refund of earnest money if the sale deed is not executed does not, under Section 23 of the Specific Relief Act, 1963, bar specific performance…
Civil Procedure / CPCProperty / Land
2026 INSC 67913 Jul 2026
Kirloskar Ferrous Industries Ltd. & Anr v. Union of India & Anr
The Supreme Court upheld the Explanations to Rule 38 of the 2016 Concession Rules and Rule 45(8)(a) of the 2017 Rules, which include royalty, DMF and NMET in the 'sale value' used to…
Constitutional LawTaxation
2026 INSC 67509 Jul 2026
AAA v. LINDA SEMA & ORS
Under Section 19(1) POCSO, knowledge that a child sexual offence was committed includes information received directly from the victim; a Headmistress so informed who did not report was…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 57903 Jun 2026
DINESHCHAND SURANA v. UCO BANK
In a Section 138 NI Act/IBC Part III moratorium case, the Supreme Court proposes bifurcating cheque-dishonour proceedings into a criminal Tier I (outside moratorium protection, given…
Commercial / IBCCriminal / BNS
2026 INSC 58027 May 2026
SANJAY DAVE v. ANDHRA BANK LTD. & ORS
The Supreme Court dismissed an insolvency applicant's appeals, holding that a CoC-approved resolution plan is binding and irrevocable, that "subject to" stipulations in the Letter of Intent…
Commercial / IBC
2026 INSC 55926 May 2026
Mukesh Kumar Yadav v. State (UT of Andaman & Nicobar Islands) & Anr
The Supreme Court held that where an appellate court reverses an acquittal and convicts an accused for the first time, it must itself hear the convict on sentence under s.386(a) read with…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 55826 May 2026
Munna Moyuddin Shaikh v. State of Gujarat
The Supreme Court upheld a murder conviction on concurrent findings but, applying the Constitution Bench ruling in V. Sriharan, modified the life sentence to the roughly twenty-three and a…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 53525 May 2026
Gour Acharjee v. State of Tripura & Ors.
The Supreme Court upheld a husband's conviction for the murder and dowry-related cruelty of his wife, holding that the medical evidence established a homicidal death staged as suicide and…
Criminal / BNSFamily / Matrimonial
2026 INSC 53425 May 2026
State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors. v. M/S Kundlas Loh Udyog
The Supreme Court held that the concessional electricity tariff under Clause 16(a) of the Himachal Pradesh Industrial Policy, 2019 was meant only for new industrial units, not for existing…
Constitutional LawCivil — General
2026 INSC 50218 May 2026
JENNIFER MESSIAS v. LEONARD G LOBO
The Supreme Court held that whether a partition decree is preliminary or final turns on the decree itself, and that where the decree already fixes entitlement, possession, mesne profits and…
Property / Land
2026 INSC 47212 May 2026
SANAND PROPERTIES P. LTD. v. JT. COMMR. OF I.T. RANGE 6 AND ORS.
The Supreme Court holds that a reassessment can validly be reopened where the Assessing Officer formed no opinion on the true nature of a receipt at the original assessment, and that a 35%…
Taxation
2026 INSC 41727 Apr 2026
ANAND JAKKAPPA PUJARI @GADDADAR v. THE STATE OF KARNATAKA
In a circumstantial murder case, the Supreme Court acquitted the appellants, holding that a joint or simultaneous disclosure by co-accused which does not distinctly connect any one accused…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 40522 Apr 2026
UNCHGAON VILLAGE PANCHAYAT v. KOLHAPUR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION AND ANOTHER
The Supreme Court dismissed a Village Panchayat's appeals, holding that the determination and extension of municipal limits under Section 3 of the Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act is…
Civil Procedure / CPC
2026 INSC 39621 Apr 2026
Prahlad Sahai v. Haryana Roadways & Anr.
The Supreme Court set out the basis for computing compensation under the head of prosthetic limb in motor accident claims — restitutio in integrum, an assumed life span of seventy years, a…
Motor Accidents
2026 INSC 37516 Apr 2026
BALAJI JAISWAL v. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH
The Supreme Court quashed a charge of abetment of suicide, holding that general allegations of an illicit relationship, without any positive act of instigation in close proximity to the…
Criminal / BNS
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 32310 Apr 2026Full text only
State Bank of India v. Amit Iron Private Limited & Ors.
2026 INSC 33809 Apr 2026
M/S NIRMAL UJJWAL CREDIT CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LTD v. RAVI SETHIA & ORS
On the appellant's withdrawal, the Supreme Court explained the law under Section 64(d) of the Multi-State Co-operative Societies Act, 2002: 'any other institution in the same line of…
Commercial / IBCCivil Procedure / CPC
2026 INSC 27423 Mar 2026
M/s ABS Marine Services v. The Andaman and Nicobar Administration
The Supreme Court restored an arbitral award against a State administration, holding that a manning-contract clause making the administration's decision on a disputed breach final and…
ArbitrationCivil Procedure / CPC
2026 INSC 22212 Mar 2026Full text only
HARISH RANA v. UNION OF INDIA & ORS
2026 INSC 8122 Jan 2026
Gloster Limited v. Gloster Cables Limited & Ors.
Commercial / IBC
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