Judges
Supreme Court of India

Justice L. NAGESWARA RAO

Supreme Court of India · 2020–2022
134 judgments in the LexStreak library · 121 with headnotes
Supreme Court of India — official profile
2022 INSC 63503 Jun 2022
IN RE: T.N. GODAVARMAN THIRUMULPAD versus UNION OF INDIA AND ORS.
In a public interest litigation on forest protection, the Supreme Court fixed a minimum one-kilometre eco-sensitive zone around every national park and wildlife sanctuary, applied a…
2022 INSC 63030 May 2022Full text only
KOTAK MAHINDRA BANK LIMITED versus A. BALAKRISHNAN & ANR.
Commercial / IBCArbitrationCompany Law
2022 INSC 60419 May 2022
In Re: Expeditious Trial of Cases under Section 138 of N.I. Act, 1881
The Supreme Court directed a one-year pilot study establishing 25 Special Courts across five States to try pending complaints under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, to…
Criminal / BNS
2022 INSC 59919 May 2022
MOHAMMAD AZAM KHAN v. THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH
In a matter with peculiar facts, the Supreme Court exercised Article 142 to grant interim bail to a person implicated in an FIR after a delay of 1 year and 7 months, when he had already…
Criminal / BNS
2022 INSC 58418 May 2022
INDIAN OVERSEAS BANK v. M/S. RCM INFRASTRUCTURE LTD. AND ANOTHER
The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of Indian Overseas Bank against the NCLT and NCLAT orders that set aside a SARFAESI auction sale of the corporate debtor's secured assets completed…
Commercial / IBC
2022 INSC 56913 May 2022
The Kerala State Coastal Zone Management v. Maradu Municipality & Ors
The Supreme Court held that flat-owners of buildings demolished for CRZ violations, who had been given possession and enjoyed the flats for several years and retained the appreciated…
Civil — General
2022 INSC 55812 May 2022
K. RAGUPATHI v. THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH
The Supreme Court held that a University employee appointed on contractual terms, but selected through a full selection process and enjoying regular benefits, could not be discontinued on…
Service / Labour
2022 INSC 55712 May 2022
CHHATTISGARH STATE POWER DISTRIBUTION COMPANY LTD versus CHHATTISGARH STATE ELECTRICITY REGULATORY COMMISSION AND ANOTHER
The Supreme Court held that a sister concern holding 27.6% of the shares in a company with a captive generating plant qualified for captive use under Section 9 of the Electricity Act, 2003…
Civil — General
2022 INSC 54210 May 2022
RAM CHANDRA v. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND ORS
The Supreme Court set aside the Chancellor's order under Section 68 of the Uttar Pradesh State Universities Act, 1973 terminating a University Reader's appointment, holding that the…
Service / Labour
2022 INSC 54109 May 2022
M/s Haryana Mining Company v. State of Haryana & Ors
The Supreme Court set aside the premature termination of a mining lease, holding that the Termination Order and the Appellate Order rested on reports which recorded no illegal mining by the…
Civil — General
2022 INSC 53109 May 2022
T.N. GODAVARMAN THIRUMULPAD v. UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. & ORS
The Supreme Court revokes the approval given by the Standing Committee of the National Board for Wildlife for doubling the Castlerock-Kulem railway line through the Bhagwan Mahaveer…
Constitutional Law
2022 INSC 52205 May 2022
DELHI AIRPORT METRO EXPRESS PRIVATE LIMITED versus DELHI METRO RAIL CORPORATION
The Supreme Court held that, because the parties had agreed on interest in Article 29.8 of the Concession Agreement, the sum under Section 31(7)(a) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act,…
ArbitrationCivil Procedure / CPC
2022 INSC 52105 May 2022
UNION OF INDIA & ORS v. NAVNEET KUMAR
The Supreme Court held that setting aside a letter communicating a decision on extension of a Tribunal member's tenure did not set aside the underlying Selection Committee recommendation,…
Service / Labour
2022 INSC 49702 May 2022
UNION OF INDIA & ANR v. MILLENIUM DELHI BROADCAST
The Supreme Court held that a performance bank guarantee furnished under an FM radio broadcasting licence could not be invoked for non-payment of licence fee where the Wireless Operational…
Arbitration
2022 INSC 48727 Apr 2022
ANAND MURTI v. SONI INFRATECH PRIVATE LIMITED & ANR
The Supreme Court quashed an NCLAT order refusing to modify an interim order in a housing-project CIRP, as the Tribunal had not considered the minutes of the stakeholders meeting or the…
Commercial / IBC
2022 INSC 48527 Apr 2022
RAJASTHAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION JAIPUR v. M/S JAIN BANDHU SNEH RESORTS PRIVATE LIMITED
The Supreme Court reversed a Rajasthan High Court judgment that had set aside a confirmed auction sale of a defaulting borrower's resort only for want of consideration of price escalation,…
Civil — General
2022 INSC 47526 Apr 2022
SMT. KAITHUAMI [L] THROUGH L.RS. versus SMT. RALLIANI AND OTHERS
The Supreme Court held that under Mizo Customary Law of Inheritance entitlement to a deceased's property turns not only on formal seniority but on the heir's discharge of the responsibility…
Property / Land
2022 INSC 46622 Apr 2022
THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH & ORS.ETC v. UDAY EDUCATION AND WELFARE TRUST & ANR.ETC
In appeals by the State of Uttar Pradesh against a National Green Tribunal judgment quashing its notice to license 1350 new wood-based industries, the Supreme Court declined interim relief,…
Civil — General
2022 INSC 46021 Apr 2022
MANISH GUPTA & ANR. ETC. ETC v. PRESIDENT, JAN BHAGIDARI SAMITI
The Supreme Court held that ad hoc guest lecturers appointed under Madhya Pradesh's Jan Bhagidari Scheme could be replaced only by regularly selected candidates and not by other ad hoc…
Service / Labour
2022 INSC 45220 Apr 2022
STATE OF ODISHA & ORS. ETC.ETC versus SULEKH CHANDRA PRADHAN ETC.ETC.
The Supreme Court held that Hindi teachers appointed directly by the Managements of Aided M.E. Schools in Odisha, without the selection procedure in Rules 5 and 6 of the 1974 Rules, had…
Service / Labour
2022 INSC 44619 Apr 2022
ALL INDIA JUDGES ASSOCIATION AND OTHERS versus UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS
The Supreme Court modified its earlier orders in the judges' service conditions writ petition so that the LDCE promotion quota in the Delhi Higher Judicial Service is open to Civil Judges…
Service / Labour
2022 INSC 44119 Apr 2022
Jagdish Mavji Tank (Dead) v. Harresh Navnitrai Mehta & Ors
The Supreme Court found the builder and the housing authority guilty of non-compliance with its earlier orders on redevelopment of a Mumbai chawl. It took the builder's undertaking to…
Civil — General
2022 INSC 41912 Apr 2022
DENTAL COUNCIL OF INDIA versus BIYANI SHIKSHAN SAMITI & ANR.
The Supreme Court upheld the 2012 amendment to Regulation 6(2)(h) of the Dental Council of India Regulations, 2006, which requires a new dental college to be attached with a Medical College…
Constitutional Law
2022 INSC 41611 Apr 2022
CENTRAL COUNCIL FOR INDIAN MEDICINE versus KARNATAKA AYURVEDA MEDICAL COLLEGE AND OTHERS
The Supreme Court holds that permission granted to an Ayurveda medical college for a subsequent academic year does not enure to the benefit of an earlier academic year in which the minimum…
Civil — General
2022 INSC 38404 Apr 2022
UNION OF INDIA & ORS. versus MAJOR R. METRI NO. 08585N
The Supreme Court held that an Armed Forces Tribunal may reappreciate evidence under Section 15(4) of the Armed Forces Tribunal Act, 2007 to test whether a court-martial finding is legally…
Criminal / BNSService / Labour
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