Judges
Supreme Court of India

Justice Surya Kant

Supreme Court of India · 2021–2026
176 judgments in the LexStreak library · 157 with headnotes
Supreme Court of India — official profile
2026 INSC 109808 Oct 2026
Shubham Equipment Private Limited & Anr v. Rothwell Water Company Limited & Ors
The Supreme Court held that a Referral Court under Section 11(6-A) examines only the prima facie existence of an arbitration agreement, that the dispute resolution clause of a mother…
Arbitration
2026 INSC 105525 Sept 2026
Owners and Parties Interested in M.V. Nereus Progress v. Om Freight Forwarders Ltd
The Supreme Court held that a validly issued termination notice under a BIMCO BARECON bareboat charterparty ends the demise charter without physical repossession, the charterer thereafter…
Civil — General
2026 INSC 93201 Sept 2026
RAS AL KHAIMAH INVESTMENT v. MATRIX PHARMACORP
Upholding the High Court's finding that a clarificatory statement made before a Commercial Court was not an undertaking inviting contempt, the Supreme Court nonetheless declined to vacate…
Commercial / IBCCivil Procedure / CPC
2026 INSC 90421 Aug 2026
Bhumika Trust v. Union of India and Others
Reviewing its own judgment which had restored three years of practice at the Bar as an eligibility condition for Civil Judge (Junior Division), the Court declined to disturb the requirement…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 76129 Jul 2026
Vanashakti v. Union of India
A three-Judge Bench, re-hearing the matter after the Review order recalled Vanashakti-I, holds that prior environmental clearance under the 2006 EIA Notification is mandatory, upholds the…
Criminal / BNSCivil Procedure / CPCConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 71616 Jul 2026Landmark
Pranesh M.K v. A.V. Gayathri & Ors
A three-Judge Bench held that nominated members of a municipality — barred by Article 243-R of the Constitution from voting even in municipal meetings — cannot vote in Karnataka Legislative…
Constitutional LawCivil — General
2026 INSC 67813 Jul 2026
State of Haryana & Ors v. M/s Jai Durgaa Finvest Pvt. Ltd
The Supreme Court held that a writ court cannot rewrite a freely negotiated commercial contract, that an express term denying interest on a security deposit is valid and not against public…
Writ / Public Law
2026 INSC 60430 May 2026
In Re: Delay in Pronouncement of Reserved Judgments by High Courts
In writ petitions over indefinitely delayed reserved judgments, the Supreme Court held that such delay violates Article 21 and, invoking Article 142, laid down comprehensive binding…
Criminal / BNSCivil Procedure / CPCConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 56427 May 2026Landmark
Association for Democratic Reforms & Ors. v. Election Commission of India & Ors.
The Supreme Court upheld the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision of Bihar's electoral rolls as traceable to s.21(3) of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 and Article…
Constitutional Law
WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) NO.599 OF 202622 May 2026
Pune Bar Association v. Union of India and Others
The Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of Section 63(4) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 and its certificate requirements for electronic records, and held that the…
Constitutional LawWrit / Public Law
2026 INSC 38317 Apr 2026
M.C. Mehta v. Union of India & Ors.
In a companion order to its Taj Trapezium Zone judgment, the Supreme Court formally disposed of the decades-old M.C. Mehta writ petition on air pollution in the National Capital Region and…
Constitutional Law
2026 INSC 38217 Apr 2026
M.C. Mehta v. Union of India & Ors.
In one of the oldest pending environmental PILs, the Supreme Court restructured the omnibus M.C. Mehta Delhi writ petition — filed in 1985 and swollen with hundreds of interlocutory…
Constitutional Law
2026 INSC 38117 Apr 2026
M.C. Mehta v. Union of India & Ors.
In the 42-year-old M.C. Mehta environmental litigation, the Supreme Court formally disposed of the original 1984 writ petition on the Taj Trapezium Zone and restructured its surviving…
Constitutional Law
2026 INSC 29125 Mar 2026
Union of India and Another v. Tarsem Singh and Others
Clarifying its Tarsem Singh rulings on NH Act acquisitions, the Supreme Court held that NHAI's corrected Rs. 29,000-crore liability estimate is no ground for review and laid down a…
Property / Land
2026 INSC 28224 Mar 2026
Yogendra Kumar Singh v. Union of India & Ors.
The Supreme Court held that Short Service Commission Officers of the Navy whose Annual Confidential Reports were written while they were ineligible for Permanent Commission could not be…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 28124 Mar 2026
Lt. Col. Pooja Pal and others v. Union of India and others
The Supreme Court held that women Short Service Commission officers of the 2010–2012 batches were denied Permanent Commission through structurally biased ACR grading and unequal access to…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2026 INSC 28024 Mar 2026Full text only
WG. CDR. SUCHETA EDN v. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS
2026 INSC 26920 Mar 2026
The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority, represented by its Member Secretary v. Dharmalingam & Ors. etc.
The Supreme Court held that Section 48-B of the Land Acquisition Act (Tamil Nadu) confers no right to re-conveyance of acquired land, that no time limit applies to utilising vested land…
Property / Land
2025 INSC 135525 Nov 2025
State of Himachal Pradesh & Anr. v. M/s OASYS Cybernatics Pvt. Ltd.
The Supreme Court held that a Letter of Intent issued for the supply and maintenance of ePoS devices for Fair Price Shops created no binding contractual rights, its pre-requisites of…
Civil — GeneralConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 133320 Nov 2025Full text only
2025 INSC 1333
2025 INSC 132819 Nov 2025
All India Judges Association & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors.
A Constitution Bench answered what the criteria should be for determining seniority in the cadre of Higher Judicial Services. It held that officers entering the common cadre from the three…
Service / LabourConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 130811 Nov 2025
SURENDRA KOLI v. THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH & ANR
In a rare exercise of curative jurisdiction, the Supreme Court recalled its 2011 judgment affirming Surendra Koli's conviction and death sentence in the Nithari (Rimpa Haldar) case, holding…
Criminal / BNSConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 127631 Oct 2025
KIMBERLEY CLUB PVT. LTD v. KRISHI UTPADAN MANDI PARISHAD & ORS
The Supreme Court set aside the rejection of a tenderer's technical bid, holding that a bid cannot be disqualified for failing a requirement (that the solvency certificate be issued by a…
Civil — GeneralConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 122213 Oct 2025
The State of West Bengal & Ors. v. M/s Santi Ceramics Pvt. Limited & Anr.
The Supreme Court held that a ceramics manufacturing company whose land formed part of the quashed Singur acquisition cannot claim restoration under the directions in Kedar Nath Yadav v.…
Property / LandConstitutional Law
2025 INSC 114524 Sept 2025
Divyangnakumari Harisinh Parmar (Dead) and Others v. Union of India and Others
The Supreme Court upheld the rescission of colonial-era Alvara land grants in Dadra and Nagar Haveli for non-cultivation, holding that statutory grant conditions rooted in public interest…
Property / LandCivil Procedure / CPC
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