Judges
Supreme Court of India

Justice Satish Chandra Sharma

Supreme Court of India · 2020–2026
125 judgments in the LexStreak library · 118 with headnotes
Supreme Court of India — official profile
2026 INSC 108605 Oct 2026
SUDHA RAKESH v. THE STATE OF KARNATAKA & ANR
The Supreme Court quashed an FIR for cheating and related offences arising from a sale of land after an earlier agreement for sale, holding that the foundational ingredient of cheating was…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 104023 Sept 2026
DR. JAYA THAKUR AND ORS v. UNION OF INDIA AND ANR
In a challenge to the 2023 Act on appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners, one Judge held on a prima facie view that a reference to a Constitution Bench…
Constitutional Law
2026 INSC 91022 Aug 2026
Vyakti Vikas Kendra, India v. Manoj Misra (Dead) & Ors
The Supreme Court set aside the National Green Tribunal’s judgment holding the organiser of the World Culture Festival liable for damage to the Yamuna floodplain, holding that the Tribunal…
Constitutional LawCivil — General
2026 INSC 86714 Aug 2026
VINOD SHIVAKUMAR v. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA
The Supreme Court allowed an appeal against the refusal to discharge a Forest Department officer prosecuted under Section 306 read with Section 107 of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 69013 Jul 2026
State of Haryana & Ors v. M/s Faridabad Gurgaon Minerals & Anr
The Supreme Court held that royalty and dead rent under a mining lease are statutory levies that the State may enhance under Section 15 of the MMDR Act and the 1964 Rules despite silence in…
Constitutional LawTaxation
2026 INSC 68813 Jul 2026
HDFC Bank Limited v. Kishore K. Mehta (Dead) through Legal Representatives
The Supreme Court held that an insolvency notice under Section 9(2) of the Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, 1909 cannot be issued on the strength of a DRT recovery certificate, since…
Commercial / IBCCivil Procedure / CPC
2026 INSC 68213 Jul 2026
Alok Kotahwala & Ors v. Jaipur Metro Rail Corporation Limited & Ors
The Supreme Court dismissed landowners' challenge to the acquisition of land for the Jaipur Metro car depot, holding that although the Section 5A hearing is mandatory and the Collector must…
Property / LandConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 68113 Jul 2026
Nilesh Shah & Ors v. Securities and Exchange Board of India & Anr
The Supreme Court dismissed appeals by Kotak Mahindra AMC, its trustee and senior executives, holding that a close-ended mutual fund scheme must be redeemed at maturity unless validly…
Company Law
2026 INSC 63210 Jun 2026
DR. RAKESH KUMAR GUPTA v. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH & ORS
Referring a question on the third Judge's jurisdiction under Section 392 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 to a larger Bench, the Supreme Court recorded respectful disagreement with…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 63009 Jun 2026
BAKSISH AHMAD v. UNION OF INDIA & ANR
The Supreme Court held that the Delhi High Court had territorial jurisdiction under Article 226(1) to entertain a dismissed BSF constable's writ petition because the Union of India and the…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 62901 Jun 2026
CA RAMCHANDRA DALLARAM CHOUDHARY v. ADANI INFRASTRUCTURE AND DEVELOPERS
The Supreme Court held that an appeal under Section 62 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 must be filed defect-free within the outer limit of sixty days, and that delay in…
Commercial / IBC
2026 INSC 58427 May 2026
THE STATE OF TRIPURA v. PANNA AHMED
The Supreme Court held that the wide power to recall a witness under Section 311 CrPC must be exercised sparingly and cannot be used to fill a lacuna or protract a trial; it set aside the…
Criminal / BNS
2026 INSC 56226 May 2026
Bency John v. Kerala State Electricity Board Ltd. & Ors.
The Supreme Court held that a railway servant remains a member of the civil service of the Union holding a civil post under the Central Government, so his prior Railway service must be…
Service / Labour
2026 INSC 50719 May 2026
State of Tamil Nadu v. Ponnusamy & Ors.
The Supreme Court restored the conviction of the assailants and conspirators in a land-dispute contract killing, holding that the High Court erred in reversing it, that a crime re-enactment…
Criminal / BNSConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 46408 May 2026
Indian Railways v. West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited & Ors.
The Supreme Court holds that Indian Railways is not a deemed distribution licensee under the Electricity Act because it merely consumes electricity within its own network rather than…
Civil — GeneralConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 44529 Apr 2026
Bonatrans India (Pvt.) Ltd. v. Bonatrans Employees Union
The Supreme Court held that in a complaint under the Maharashtra Recognition of Trade Unions and Prevention of Unfair Labour Practices Act, 1971, where the employer disputes that the…
Service / Labour
2026 INSC 31404 Apr 2026
COMMISSIONER, DELHI POLICE & ANR v. UTTAM KUMAR
A recruitment schedule declared final in the advertisement cannot be reset for a lone candidate citing ordinary ill health; unanswered representations confer no right to reschedule, and…
Service / Labour
2026 INSC 31302 Apr 2026
PUNJAB & SIND BANK v. SH. RAJ KUMAR
The Supreme Court allowed the Punjab & Sind Bank's appeal and restored the dismissal of a senior manager, holding that courts interfere with disciplinary punishment only where no reasonable…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 25716 Mar 2026
BHOLA MAHTO v. THE STATE OF JHARKHAND
The Supreme Court remanded a murder appeal decided after two decades through a court-appointed amicus without notice to the convict, holding that while unurged grounds cannot be raised…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 149924 Dec 2025
SANDEEP SINGH THAKUR v. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH & ANOTHER
The Supreme Court invoked Article 142 of the Constitution to quash the appellant's conviction under Section 376(2)(n) IPC after he and the prosecutrix married during the pendency of the…
Criminal / BNSConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 129407 Nov 2025
Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd. v. M/s. Brandavan Food Products & Ors.
The Supreme Court set aside an arbitral award that had directed the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation to pay caterers the full regular-meal tariff and welcome-drink charges,…
ArbitrationConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 127731 Oct 2025
M/s. Lancor Holdings Limited v. Prem Kumar Menon and others
The Supreme Court held that delay in the delivery of an arbitral award is not by itself a ground to set it aside, but that where undue and unexplained delay is shown to have adversely…
Arbitration
2025 INSC 120809 Oct 2025Full text only
REJANISH K.V v. K. DEEPA AND OTHERS
2025 INSC 118406 Oct 2025
NAZIM & ORS v. THE STATE OF UTTARAKHAND
The Supreme Court acquitted three men convicted of murdering a ten-year-old boy, holding that the omission of two of them from the FIR, dock identification without a test identification…
Criminal / BNS
2025 INSC 108609 Sept 2025
AMIT NEHRA & ANR v. PAWAN KUMAR GARG & ORS
The Supreme Court allowed an appeal by homebuyers whose claim, though resubmitted after the Committee of Creditors approved the Resolution Plan, had been verified and admitted by the…
Commercial / IBC
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