Judges
Supreme Court of India

Justice Pankaj Mithal

Supreme Court of India · 2023–2026
76 judgments in the LexStreak library · 52 with headnotes
Supreme Court of India — official profile
2026 INSC 57127 May 2026
TIKKA SHATRUJIT SINGH & ORS v. SUKJIT SINGH & ANR
The Supreme Court held that after an erstwhile ruler signs a covenant of merger, the rule of male lineal primogeniture is preserved only for succession to the Gaddi and the ruler’s personal…
Property / LandFamily / MatrimonialCivil Procedure / CPC
2026 INSC 57027 May 2026
Small Scale Entrepreneurs Association v. State of Maharashtra
The Supreme Court held that the TTC MIDC industrial area falls within Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation's limits and that only the Corporation — not MIDC, whose Section 17 levy is a fee and…
TaxationConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 54025 May 2026
Bai Avabai Hormusji Tata Trust v. Shernaz Faroukh Lawyer & Ors.
The Supreme Court upheld a High Court's exercise of its inherent and plenary powers, as a Court of record under Article 215, to direct a court-monitored criminal investigation in a…
Criminal / BNSCivil Procedure / CPC
2026 INSC 53725 May 2026
Supriya Kumari M.C. v. State of Kerala & Ors.
The Supreme Court quashed a criminal prosecution under s.304-A IPC against an anaesthetist, holding that criminal medical negligence requires gross negligence and mens rea (the Jacob Mathew…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 45106 May 2026
Habban Shah v. Sheruddin
The Supreme Court held that a decree for specific performance conditioned on deposit of the balance sale consideration within a stipulated period becomes inexecutable and the underlying…
Civil Procedure / CPCProperty / Land
2026 INSC 34009 Apr 2026
MAURICE W. INNIS v. LILY KAZROONI @ LILY ARIF SHAIKH
The Supreme Court reaffirmed that an Executing Court under Section 47 CPC cannot go behind or vary a decree — save where the decree is a nullity for want of inherent jurisdiction — and set…
Civil Procedure / CPC
2026 INSC 33909 Apr 2026
RUSSI FISHERIES P. LTD. & ANR v. BHAVNA SETH & ORS
The Supreme Court dismissed the defendants' appeal and upheld a decree of specific performance, holding that findings of fact by the First Appellate Court cannot be reappreciated in a…
Civil Procedure / CPCProperty / Land
2026 INSC 24917 Mar 2026
SUBRAMANI v. STATE OF KARNATAKA
The Supreme Court dismissed a husband's appeal and affirmed his conviction under Sections 302 and 498A IPC for burning his wife to death, holding that her dying declaration was reliable…
Criminal / BNSFamily / Matrimonial
2026 INSC 8727 Jan 2026
M/s Premium Transmission Private Limited v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.
Service / Labour
2026 INSC 5413 Jan 2026
Kanchana Rai v. Geeta Sharma
Family / Matrimonial
2026 INSC 4308 Jan 2026
Ultratech Cement Ltd. v. The State of Gujarat & Ors.
Motor Accidents
2026 INSC 805 Jan 2026
NAK Engineering Company Pvt. Ltd. v. Tarun Keshrichand Shah & Ors.
Civil Procedure / CPCCompany Law
2025 INSC 128204 Nov 2025
Sadiq B. Hanchinmani v. State of Karnataka & Ors.
The Supreme Court restored an FIR into an allegedly forged e-stamp rent agreement, holding that a Magistrate may refer a complaint for police investigation under Section 156(3) CrPC before…
Criminal / BNSCivil Procedure / CPC
2025 INSC 119507 Oct 2025
K. S. SHIVAPPA v. SMT. K. NEELAMMA
The Supreme Court held that a sale of a Hindu minor's immovable property by the natural guardian without the court's permission is voidable under Section 8(3) of the Hindu Minority and…
Family / Matrimonial
2025 INSC 119307 Oct 2025
Rajendra Singh & Ors. v. State of Uttarakhand
Restoring an acquittal in a murder case, the Supreme Court held that a High Court cannot reverse an acquittal absent perversity, that chance witnesses of doubtful presence are unreliable,…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 112417 Sept 2025
THAMMINENI BHASKAR v. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH
The Supreme Court acquitted the appellant of murder, kidnapping and evidence-destruction charges, holding that the prosecution's case rested entirely on circumstantial evidence and the…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 109510 Sept 2025
VINOD KUMAR PANDEY & ANR v. SEESH RAM SAINI & ORS
Two CBI officers challenged a High Court direction to register FIR for abuse of official position and falsification of seizure records; the Supreme Court upheld the FIR direction while…
Criminal / BNSConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 96712 Aug 2025
A. KARUNANITHI v. THE STATE REPRESENTED BY INSPECTOR OF POLICE
In a ₹500 trap case, the Supreme Court confirms the Village Administrative Officer's conviction but reduces his sentence to the statutory minimum, and acquits the Village Assistant who…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 91801 Aug 2025
SURESH v. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH & ANR
The Supreme Court set aside a finding of juvenility, holding that a date of birth recorded by a recognised private school on the father's oral say-so is not conclusive proof of age under…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 89525 Jul 2025
ANURAG BHATNAGAR & ANR v. STATE (NCT OF DELHI) & ANR
The Supreme Court held that an informant must exhaust the remedies under Sections 154(1) and 154(3) CrPC before moving a Magistrate under Section 156(3), but that a Magistrate who…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 86817 Jul 2025
M SAMBASIVA RAO v. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH
The Supreme Court restored a trial court's acquittal of an insurance officer accused of demanding a bribe to process a claim, holding that contradictions in the trap evidence and the…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 83214 Jul 2025
INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED & ORS v. M/S SHREE NIWAS RAMGOPAL & ORS
A partnership of more than two partners is not dissolved by one partner's death where the deed so provides; a State oil corporation could not stop kerosene supply to the firm without…
Civil — GeneralConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 73619 May 2025
State by Lokayuktha Police, Davanagere v. C.B. Nagaraj
The Supreme Court affirmed the acquittal of a public servant in a Prevention of Corruption Act trap case, holding that conviction requires the complete chain of demand, acceptance and…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 72316 May 2025
RAGHUNATH SHARMA & ORS v. STATE OF HARYANA & ANR
The Supreme Court held that a High Court cannot use its inherent power under Section 482 CrPC to recall or revive an FIR it had earlier quashed on a compromise merely because a party later…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 49316 Apr 2025Full text only
S.C. GARG v. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH & ANR
Criminal / BNS
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