Judges
Supreme Court of India

Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul

Supreme Court of India · 2021–2023
89 judgments in the LexStreak library · 82 with headnotes
Supreme Court of India — official profile
2023 INSC 105629 Nov 2023
HARI BABU THOTA
The Supreme Court held that for the exemption of micro, small and medium enterprises from Section 29A of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, the relevant cut-off date is the date of…
Commercial / IBC
2023 INSC 101221 Nov 2023
PAWAN KUMAR versus STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH & ORS.
Accepting a plea of juvenility raised since trial, the Supreme Court held that school certificates outrank a family register under Rule 12 of the 2007 Rules, that a bone ossification test…
Criminal / BNS
2023 INSC 102309 Nov 2023
M/S. IFCI LIMITED versus SUTANU SINHA & ORS.
The Supreme Court held that Compulsorily Convertible Debentures subscribed as part of the equity component of a highway project were equity and not financial debt under the Insolvency and…
Commercial / IBC
2023 INSC 95830 Oct 2023
PRADEEP MEHRA versus HARIJIVAN J. JETHWA (SINCE DECEASED THR. LRS.) & ORS.
The Supreme Court held that an executing court under Section 47 of the CPC cannot go behind the decree or reopen a prior unchallenged order allowing execution, that res judicata bars a…
Civil Procedure / CPC
2023 INSC 91816 Oct 2023
MATHEWS J. NEDUMPARA & ORS. versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS.
The Supreme Court dismissed a writ petition challenging the designation of Senior Advocates under Sections 16 and 23(5) of the Advocates Act, 1961 as violative of Articles 14, 19 and 21,…
Constitutional Law
2023 INSC 52412 May 2023
MS. INDIRA JAISING versus SUPREME COURT OF INDIA, THROUGH SECRETARY GENERAL
On applications to revisit the 2017 guidelines for designation of Senior Advocates, a three-Judge Bench held that voting by secret ballot must be an exception with reasons recorded, reduced…
Commercial / IBC
2023 INSC 72908 May 2023
PRIYANKA MISHRA & ORS v. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH & ANR
Quashing an FIR under Section 498-A IPC against the sister-in-law, mother-in-law and father-in-law, the Supreme Court held that general and omnibus allegations without any specific role…
Criminal / BNS
2023 INSC 46801 May 2023
SHILPA SAILESH v. VARUN SREENIVASAN
A Constitution Bench holds that this Court's power under Article 142(1) to do 'complete justice' extends to waiving the statutory period and procedure under Section 13-B of the Hindu…
Criminal / BNSFamily / MatrimonialConstitutional Law
2023 INSC 44428 Apr 2023
STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH v. PHOOLCHAND RATHORE
The Supreme Court declined to reverse a High Court acquittal in a wife-murder case resting on circumstantial evidence, holding the High Court's view a plausible one. It held that the…
Criminal / BNS
2023 INSC 44328 Apr 2023
SANTOSH @ BHURE versus STATE (G.N.C.T.) OF DELHI
The Supreme Court acquitted the tenant of an apartment where a body was found, holding that tenancy alone and doubtful disclosure recoveries did not complete the chain of circumstances, and…
Criminal / BNSConstitutional Law
2023 INSC 37217 Apr 2023
VIRENDRASING versus THE ADDITIONAL COMMISSIONER AND ORS.
The Supreme Court upheld the disqualification of a Zilla Parishad Councillor under Section 16(1)(i) of the Maharashtra Zilla Parishads and Panchayat Samitis Act, 1961, holding that a…
Civil — General
2023 INSC 36613 Apr 2023Full text only
GUJARAT URJA VIKAS NIGAM LIMITED & ORS. versus RENEW WIND ENERGY (RAJKOT) PRIVATE LIMITED & ORS
Taxation
2023 INSC 28624 Mar 2023Full text only
MAH. ADIWASI THAKUR JAMAT SWARAKSHAN SAMITI v. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA & ORS
2023 INSC 26521 Mar 2023
UNION OF INDIA & ORS. v. PARASHOTAM DASS
A three-Judge Bench held that orders of the Armed Forces Tribunal are open to challenge under Article 226 before the High Court, that Major General Shri Kant Sharma does not lay down the…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2023 INSC 23315 Mar 2023
ASHOK RAM PARHAD & ORS. v. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA & ORS.
Upholding the Bombay High Court, the Supreme Court held that direct recruits to the post of Assistant Conservator of Forests reckon seniority from the date of the appointment order issued…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2023 INSC 23215 Mar 2023Full text only
AJAY KUMAR RADHEYSHYAM GOENKA v. TOURISM FINANCE CORPORATION OF INDIA LTD.
Criminal / BNSCommercial / IBCCompany Law
2023 INSC 22214 Mar 2023
UNION OF INDIA & ORS. v. M/S. UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION & ORS.
A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court dismissed the curative petitions of the Union of India seeking a top up of the 1989 Bhopal gas disaster settlement with Union Carbide Corporation.…
Civil Procedure / CPCConstitutional Law
2023 INSC 18201 Mar 2023
Ravi Dhingra v. State of Haryana
The Supreme Court set aside convictions under Section 364A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 for kidnapping for ransom, holding that the threat to cause death or hurt surfaced only in…
Criminal / BNS
10 Feb 2023
Central Board of Dawoodi Bohra Community & Anr. v. The State of Maharashtra & Anr.
A five-Judge Constitution Bench held that the repeal of the Bombay Protection of Ex-communication Act, 1949 does not exhaust Writ Petition (C) No. 740 of 1986, because the question whether…
Constitutional Law
2023 INSC 11610 Feb 2023
Bar Council of India v. Bonnie Foi Law College & Ors.
A Constitution Bench held that the Bar Council of India has adequate power under the Advocates Act, 1961 to prescribe an examination for enrolment of advocates, and that V. Sudeer v. Bar…
Constitutional LawService / Labour
2023 INSC 10408 Feb 2023
NATIONAL INSURANCE CO. LTD. v. CHIEF ELECTORAL OFFICER
The Supreme Court held that a group insurance policy covering death resulting solely and directly from accident caused by external violent and any other visible means did not cover a police…
Civil — General
2023 INSC 10308 Feb 2023
M/s. GAIL (India) Limited v. M/s. Indian Petrochemicals Corp. Ltd. & Ors.
The Supreme Court held that a writ petition challenging clauses of a gas supply contract with GAIL, a Public Sector Undertaking enjoying a monopolistic position, was maintainable, and that…
Constitutional LawWrit / Public Law
2023 INSC 8024 Jan 2023
TALAT SANVI v. STATE OF JHARKHAND & ANR
The Supreme Court held that interim victim compensation cannot be imposed as a condition of anticipatory bail since compensation under Section 357 CrPC arises only after conclusion of…
Criminal / BNS
2023 INSC 2713 Jan 2023
THE STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND OTHERS v. GOEL BUS SERVICE KULLU ETC. ETC
The Supreme Court held that the special road tax under section 3A(3) of the Himachal Pradesh Motor Vehicles Taxation Act, 1972, levied on transport vehicles plied without a valid permit, is…
TaxationConstitutional Law
2022 INSC 127714 Dec 2022
KALICHARAN & ORS versus STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH
The Supreme Court holds that the accused were convicted of murder on a charge alleging death by bullets while the evidence showed injuries by sharp weapons, and that the correct…
Criminal / BNS
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