Judges
Supreme Court of India

Justice Manoj Misra

Supreme Court of India · 2023–2026
177 judgments in the LexStreak library · 91 with headnotes
Supreme Court of India — official profile
2026 INSC 91122 Aug 2026
R.J. Gajendra Kumar v. Government of Tamil Nadu and Anr
The Supreme Court held that a Tourist Officer in the Tamil Nadu Tourism Department who obtained his degree through the distance education mode of an open university, under Government Orders…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 88819 Aug 2026
SINGAPOGU BABU RAO & ORS v. SPECIAL DEPUTY COLLECTOR (LAND ACQUISITION) & ORS
Sixteen Lok Adalat awards apportioning land acquisition compensation, passed without all disputing title-holders as parties or signatories, held not to constitute a valid Section 29…
Civil Procedure / CPCProperty / Land
2026 INSC 88018 Aug 2026
GOPI @ SAHAYA PURUNA v. THE STATE, REP. BY THE INSPECTOR OF POLICE
The Supreme Court modified a Madras High Court judgment that, exercising suo moto revisional jurisdiction while hearing the Appellant's appeal against his conviction for the murder of his…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 87818 Aug 2026
HEMANT KUMAR & ORS v. STATE OF HARYANA
The Supreme Court held that the deputation of two officers of the Haryana Development and Panchayat Department to the Public Works (Buildings and Roads) Department was illegal and that of…
Service / Labour
2026 INSC 87217 Aug 2026
M/S SANTOSH ASSOCIATE PRIVATE LIMITED v. HARYANA STATE INDUSTRIAL AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LTD
The Supreme Court, hearing a challenge to an arbitration clause that required only the contractor to furnish a ten per cent pre-deposit of the claim amount before invoking arbitration under…
ArbitrationConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 83512 Aug 2026
SRINIVASA REDDY VELAGALA v. SRAVANTHI INFRATECH PVT. LTD
In an appeal against admission of a Section 9 application under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, the Supreme Court held that the EPC contract had not been frustrated by effluxion…
Commercial / IBC
2026 INSC 76229 Jul 2026
Abhay Jain v. High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan & Anr
The Supreme Court clarifies that consequential service benefits following a wrongful discharge cannot be denied for want of Annual Confidential Reports that the employer’s own wrongdoing…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 72721 Jul 2026
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK & ANR v. ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
The Supreme Court quashed a 23-year-old FERA complaint and the summoning order, holding that service of the mandatory opportunity notice under the proviso to Section 61(2) had never been…
Criminal / BNSConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 71717 Jul 2026
M/S Tata Steel Ltd v. Varsha & Anr
The Supreme Court held that on approval of a resolution plan under Section 31 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, all claims are frozen and binding on every stakeholder, and any claim…
Commercial / IBC
2026 INSC 70314 Jul 2026
R. Veronica & Anr v. Rudrayani Devaki (D) through LRs. S. Satha Kumar & Ors
The Supreme Court held that a High Court cannot decide a second appeal under Section 100 CPC without formulating a substantial question of law, which is mandatory under Section 100 read…
Civil Procedure / CPCProperty / LandTaxation
2026 INSC 67710 Jul 2026
The Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research & Ors v. Anil Earnest
The Supreme Court held that Para 3(b) of the CSIR promotion circular dated 01.06.2011 requires the Assessment Committee to consider a scientist's APR/PMS and Work Report, not to average the…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
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 66906 Jul 2026
SARDARI LAL v. BISHAN DASS & ORS
The Supreme Court allowed the plaintiff-appellant's appeal in a suit for declaration of title based on intestate succession, restoring the concurrent decree of the trial court and first…
Civil Procedure / CPCProperty / Land
2026 INSC 49305 Jun 2026
GAJULA THIRUPATHI v. RECRUITMENT BOARD AND OTHERS
The Supreme Court held that a candidate's past criminal case that was compounded could not, by itself, justify cancelling his police appointment, because the offence of cheating stood…
Service / LabourCriminal / BNS
2026 INSC 54320 May 2026
Pulkit @ Monu v. State of Madhya Pradesh
The Supreme Court acquitted an accused convicted of criminal conspiracy to commit murder, holding that motive, an uncorroborated chance-witness account, a disclosure statement leading to no…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 49615 May 2026
MARIETTA D'SILVA v. RUDOLF CLOTHAN LACERDA & ORS.
The Supreme Court, restating that pleadings carry material facts (facta probanda) and not the evidence proving them (facta probantia), held that a Rent Act landlord need only plead and…
Property / Land
2026 INSC 48915 May 2026
ALKA AGRAWAL AND OTHERS v. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS
The Supreme Court held that money advanced against a promise of repayment is a “deposit” and its private recipients a “financial establishment” under the Maharashtra MPID Act, so calling…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 46308 May 2026
ANAND NARAYAN SHUKLA v. JAGAT DHARI
The Supreme Court holds that rescission of a contract under s.28 of the Specific Relief Act for delayed deposit of sale consideration is discretionary, not automatic, sets aside orders…
Civil Procedure / CPCProperty / Land
2026 INSC 41524 Apr 2026
HOME CARE RETAIL MARTS PVT. LTD v. HARESH N. SANGHAVI
Resolving a conflict among the High Courts, the Supreme Court held that any party to an arbitration agreement — including a party that lost in the arbitration — may seek interim measures…
Arbitration
2026 INSC 40922 Apr 2026
SIB NATH CHATTERJEE v. TULSIDAS CHATTERJEE & ORS
The Supreme Court dismissed a pre-emption appeal under Section 8(1) of the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955, holding that a raiyat possessing adjoining land must exercise the right within…
Property / Land
2026 INSC 35210 Apr 2026
State of Kerala v. M. Vijayakumar & Ors.
The Supreme Court held that dearness allowance for serving employees and dearness relief for pensioners serve one object — neutralising inflation — so enhancing them at different rates has…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 31906 Apr 2026
DR. S. BALAGOPAL v. STATE OF TAMIL NADU & ANR
The Supreme Court quashed criminal proceedings against a paediatric surgeon accused of forging a consent form, holding that where the Medical Board found the surgery an appropriate…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 31806 Apr 2026
SIVAKUMAR v. STATE REP. BY THE INSPECTOR OF POLICE
The Supreme Court held that merely calling someone a "bastard" in a heated exchange is not obscenity under s.294(b) IPC, set aside a co-accused's s.304 Part II/s.34 conviction for want of…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 30501 Apr 2026
JAI PRAKASH SAINI v. MANAGING DIRECTOR, U.P. COOPERATIVE FEDERATION LTD. & ORS
The Supreme Court set aside the dismissal of a U.P. Cooperative Federation employee and the recovery ordered against him because no witness was examined in the disciplinary enquiry despite…
Service / Labour
2026 INSC 28524 Mar 2026
M/s. Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Limited v. Commissioner of Central Excise and Service Tax (LTU)
The Supreme Court held that a fertilizer manufacturer procuring Naphtha free of excise duty under Notification No. 4/1997-CE did not lose the exemption merely because part of the steam…
Taxation
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