Judges
Supreme Court of India

Justice S. Ravindra Bhat

Supreme Court of India · 2021–2023
117 judgments in the LexStreak library · 115 with headnotes
Supreme Court of India — official profile
2023 INSC 93119 Oct 2023
M/S UNIBROS versus ALL INDIA RADIO
The Supreme Court upheld the setting aside of an arbitral award granting a contractor loss of profit for delay, holding that the award on remand overreached the High Court's binding…
Arbitration
2023 INSC 91013 Oct 2023
COMMISSIONER, CUSTOMS CENTRAL EXCISE AND SERVICE TAX, PATNA versus M/S SHAPOORJI PALLONJI AND COMPANY PVT. LTD. & ORS.
The Supreme Court held that the 90% government-participation condition in clause 2(s) of the Service Tax Exemption Notification qualifies only sub-clause (ii) and not the independent…
Taxation
2023 INSC 88909 Oct 2023
NARESH @ NEHRU versus STATE OF HARYANA
The Supreme Court allows the appeals of three accused convicted of murder with the aid of Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code and acquits them. It finds the sole eyewitness unreliable, the…
Criminal / BNS
2023 INSC 76123 Aug 2023
BHAGWAN SINGH v. DILIP KUMAR @ DEEPU @ DEPAK AND ANOTHER
The Supreme Court set aside a High Court order granting bail to men accused of the gang rape of a minor, holding the order bereft of material particulars and swayed by delay while ignoring…
Criminal / BNS
2023 INSC 69509 Aug 2023
Dev Gupta v. PEC University of Technology & Ors.
The Supreme Court struck down as violative of Article 14 a minimum 75% aggregate eligibility condition imposed on candidates seeking admission under the 2% sports quota, holding that…
Constitutional Law
2023 INSC 58603 Jul 2023
M/S. SANVIRA INDUSTRIES v. RAIN CII CARBON (VIZAG) LTD. & ORS
The Supreme Court upholds the Delhi High Court Division Bench and dismisses Sanvira Industries' appeal against the allocation of imported raw pet-coke. Allocation under the 1.4 million…
Civil — General
2023 INSC 57219 May 2023
CENTRAL GST DELHI - III v. DELHI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT LTD
Dismissing the revenue's appeals, the Supreme Court held that user development fee collected by airport operators under Section 22A of the Airports Authority of India Act, 1994 is a…
Taxation
2023 INSC 46328 Apr 2023
UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. versus COSMO FILMS LIMITED
The Supreme Court upheld the 'pre-import condition' introduced for Advance Authorisation holders on the introduction of GST, setting aside the Gujarat High Court's contrary judgment. It…
TaxationConstitutional Law
2023 INSC 45228 Apr 2023
P. V. NIDHISH & ORS. versus KERALA STATE WAKF BOARD & ANR.
The Supreme Court quashed a criminal complaint prosecuting long-standing tenants of waqf property as 'encroachers' under Section 52A of the Wakf Act, 1995, holding that a penal provision…
Criminal / BNSProperty / Land
2023 INSC 34110 Apr 2023
AUTHORISED OFFICER STATE BANK OF INDIA versus C. NATARAJAN & ANR
The Supreme Court held that a SARFAESI auction-purchaser's deposit forfeited under Rule 9(5) of the Security Interest (Enforcement) Rules, 2002 for default in paying the balance sale price…
Commercial / IBC
2023 INSC 31329 Mar 2023
CCE, AURANGABAD v. M/S VIDEOCON INDUSTRIES LTD. THR. ITS DIRECTOR
The Supreme Court held that imported LCD panels used in television sets and car-audio systems remain classifiable under the specific entry for Liquid Crystal Devices in Customs Tariff…
Taxation
2023 INSC 31128 Mar 2023
MOHD MUSLIM @ HUSSAIN v. STATE (NCT OF DELHI)
The Supreme Court granted regular bail to an NDPS accused who had been in custody for over seven years with the trial barely half complete, holding that the right to a speedy trial under…
Criminal / BNSConstitutional Law
2023 INSC 27522 Mar 2023
Shramjeevi Cooperative Housing Society Ltd. v. Dinesh Joshi & Ors.
The Supreme Court set aside orders of the National Green Tribunal restraining construction near a water body, holding that the Tribunal had condemned affected landowners unheard and had…
Civil Procedure / CPC
2023 INSC 27422 Mar 2023
M/S BILAG INDUSTRIES P. LTD. & ANR v. COMMR. OF CEN. EXC. DAMAN & ANR
The Supreme Court set aside a CESTAT order treating a joint-venture manufacturer's sales to a fellow subsidiary as sales to a "related person" under Section 4(4)(c) of the Central Excise…
Taxation
2023 INSC 22914 Mar 2023
THE STATE OF GOA v. SUMMIT ONLINE TRADE SOLUTIONS (P) LTD & ORS
Setting aside an order of the Sikkim High Court, the Supreme Court held that territorial jurisdiction under clause (2) of Article 226 turns on whether the petition memo pleads facts…
TaxationConstitutional Law
2023 INSC 22514 Mar 2023
ASHUTOSH SAMANTA (D) BY LRS. & ORS v. SM. RANJAN BALA DASI & ORS
Affirming a grant of letters of administration, the Supreme Court held that the Section 90 presumption for documents more than thirty years old does not apply to the proof of a will, but…
Property / Land
2023 INSC 20703 Mar 2023
Premchand v. State of Maharashtra
The Supreme Court altered a murder conviction to culpable homicide not amounting to murder because both courts below had ignored the appellant's exhibited written statement under Section…
Criminal / BNS
2023 INSC 19302 Mar 2023
COMMISSIONER OF TRADE TAX v. M/S. KUMAR PAINTS AND MILL STORES THROUGH ITS PROPRIETOR
The Supreme Court held that mixing base paint with colouring through a computerised tinting process does not amount to ‘manufacture’ under Section 2(e)(i) of the U.P. Trade Tax Act, 1948,…
Taxation
2023 INSC 19202 Mar 2023
SUPER DIAMOND TOOLS & ORS v. K. MOHAN RAO
The Supreme Court held that Section 17 of the Limitation Act only postpones limitation where fraud is alleged, running from the date of knowledge of the fraud, and dismissed the appeal…
Arbitration
2023 INSC 18901 Mar 2023
THE STATE OF CHATTISGARH & ANR v. AMAN KUMAR SINGH & ORS. ETC. ETC
The Supreme Court set aside a Chhattisgarh High Court order quashing an FIR alleging disproportionate assets against a former IRS officer and his wife, holding that an FIR founded on…
Criminal / BNSConstitutional Law
2023 INSC 18401 Mar 2023
M/S DHARTI DREDGING AND INFRASTRUCTURE LTD v. COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS AND CENTRAL EXCISE, GUNTUR
The Supreme Court held that the dredger pumping units, air compressors, pipes, wire mesh, steel angle plates and outward engine boat are integral parts of a Cutter Suction Dredger under…
Taxation
2023 INSC 18301 Mar 2023
COMMISSIONER OF CENTRAL EXCISE, ALLAHABAD v. M/S J.R. ORGANICS LTD
The Supreme Court upheld CESTAT's valuation of specially denatured spirit captively consumed by the assessee, holding that the most conservative comparable price, not the highest recorded…
Taxation
2023 INSC 17227 Feb 2023
AMAN SEMI-CONDUCTORS (PVT.) LTD v. HARYANA STATE INDUSTRIAL DEVLOPMENT CORPORATION LTD. & ANR
The Supreme Court upheld the resumption of an industrial plot in Udyog Vihar, Gurgaon, where the allottee took no step to construct the unit for five years despite repeated show cause…
Property / Land
2023 INSC 14921 Feb 2023
Sanwarlal Agrawal & Ors. v. Ashok Kumar Kothari & Ors.
The Supreme Court set aside concurrent Bombay High Court orders which had read a ₹10.29 crore interest-free loan into a ₹36.75 crore consent decree for the sale of a 50% shareholding,…
Property / LandCivil Procedure / CPC
2023 INSC 14420 Feb 2023
Ramesh Chandra Sharma & Ors v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors
The Supreme Court struck down as violative of Article 14 the classification between "Pushtaini" and "Gair-Pushtaini" landowners that gave higher acquisition compensation and ex-gratia only…
Property / LandConstitutional Law
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