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Article 14: Equality before law

The State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India.

Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the official text of the Constitution of India. As amended up to the Constitution (One Hundred and Sixth Amendment) Act, 2023. Text as on 10 September 2026. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.

Supreme Court judgments citing the article 14

  • The Director of Town Panchayat & Ors. v. M. Jayabal & Anr. Etc.
    2025 INSC 142312 December 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Issue arose whether the compassionate appointment of a family member on account of death of an employee in service, is as a matter of right; whether the dependent family member of a deceased employee, after being…

  • Dr. Sohail Malik v. Union of India & Anr.
    2025 INSC 141510 December 2025Dismissed

    Issue arose whether the Internal Complaints Committee-ICC constituted in one department of the Central Government has the jurisdiction to entertain a complaint of sexual harassment under the POSH Act against an employee…

  • The State of Jharkhand v. The Indian Builders Jamshedpur
    2025 INSC 13085 December 2025Directions issued

    Bharat Drilling & Foundation Treatment Pvt. Ltd. v. State of Jharkhand and Ors. (2009) 16 SCC 705, if requires to be referred to a larger bench for reconsideration and authoritative decision in order to obviate…

  • Mission Accessibility v. Union of India & Ors.
    2025 INSC 13763 December 2025Disposed of

    In the instant petition, the petitioner sought for the modification of the timeline for scribe registration in the Civil Services Examination conducted by Union Public Service Commission and for permitting the use of…

  • M/s Shanti Construction Pvt. Ltd. v. The State of Odisha & Ors.
    2025 INSC 12957 November 2025Disposed of

    Issue arose as regards the interpretation of the term ‘previous Financial Year’ as defined in r.27(4)(iv) of Odisha Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 2016; and justification of the order passed by the High Court that bid…

  • Lifestyle Equities C.V. & Anr. v. Amazon Technologies INC.
    2025 INSC 11907 October 2025Disposed of

    Whether the Division Bench of the High Court committed any error in passing the impugned judgment and order by which the application filed by the respondent herein (judgment debtor-original defendant) under Order XLI…

  • Vinishma Technologies Pvt. Ltd. v. State of Chhattisgarh & Anr.
    2025 INSC 11826 October 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Issue arose whether the impugned tender condition meets the test of reasonableness and fairness and or whether the same constitutes an arbitrary criteria which excludes the other eligible bidders from participation…

  • M/s U.P. Asbestos Limited v. State of Rajasthan & Others
    2025 INSC 115424 September 2025

    Issue arose as regards the validity of the Notification No. S.O.377, dated 09.03.2007, issued by the Government of Rajasthan in exercise of its powers conferred by s.8(3) of the Rajasthan Value Added Tax Act, 2003…

  • The State of Haryana v. Jai Singh and Others
    2025 INSC 112216 September 2025Dismissed

    The issue pertains to assail the correctness of the Judgment and Order passed by the Full Bench of High Court wherein the writ petition preferred by the proprietors/landowners, (Respondents herein), challenging the…

  • Anna Waman Bhalerao v. State of Maharashtra
    2025 INSC 111412 September 2025Dismissed

    Whether the High Court was justified in rejecting the anticipatory bail applications of the appellants; issue of inordinate delay by Courts in deciding the bail and anticipatory bail applications.

  • Reena Banerjee and Another v. Government of NCT of Delhi and Others
    2025 INSC 110112 September 2025Directions issued

    The present case concerns the implementation of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 along with the prolonged institutionalisation. The lack of access to education, health, and community life for persons…

  • Mamman Khan v. State of Haryana
    2025 INSC 111312 September 2025Disposed of

    Issue arose whether the orders of the trial court, as affirmed by the High Court, directing segregation of the appellant’s trial from that of the co-accused and requiring the filing of a separate charge sheet solely on…

  • Union of India & Ors. v. Sajib Roy
    2025 INSC 10849 September 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Issue arose as regards the correctness of the order by the High Court permitting the respondents who had applied as reserved candidates in OBC category after having availed age relaxation for the post of Constable, to…

  • Haryana Power Purchase Centre (Hppc) and Others v. Gmr Kamalanga Energy Limited and Others
    2025 INSC 10798 September 2025Dismissed

    The APTEL dismissed the appeals (Appeal no.135 of 2018 along with Appeal no.54 of 2019) and upheld the order dated 20.03.2018 passed by the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) in Petition No.105/MP/20173.

  • C.P. Francis v. C.P. Joseph and Others
    2025 INSC 10713 September 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Whether the High Court, while invoking the Proviso to s.100(5), CPC, was correct in referring to and applying s.67, Indian Succession Act, 1925; whether s.67, Indian Succession Act, 1925 is attracted to determine the…

  • Anjuman Ishaat-E-Taleem Trust v. The State of Maharashtra and Others
    2025 INSC 10631 September 2025Directions issued

    1) Whether the State can insist that a teacher seeking appointment in a minority educational institution must qualify the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET); If so, whether providing such a qualification would affect any of…

  • The State of Telangana & Ors. Etc. v. Kalluri Naga Narasimha Abhiram & Ors. Etc.
    2025 INSC 10581 September 2025Disposed of

    Whether the wisdom of the legislature in defining a ‘local candidate’ entitled to apply under the ‘Competent Authority Seats/Quota’, by a subordinate legislation, in consonance with a Presidential Order issued…

  • Kiran v. Rajkumar Jivraj Jain & Anr.
    2025 INSC 10671 September 2025Disposed of

    Whether the High Court was correct in allowing the pre-arrest bail to respondent-accused u/s.438 Cr.PC in respect of alleged commission of offenses punishable u/ss.118(1), 115(1), 189(2), 189(4), 190, 191(2), 191(3),…

  • Vasanta Sampat Dupare v. Union of India & Ors.
    2025 INSC 104325 August 2025Allowed

    Writ petition filed u/Art.32 challenging the continuing validity of the sentence of death against the petitioner, having been affirmed on appeal, declined in review, and followed by the rejection of mercy petitions and…

  • P. Maruthi Prasada Rao v. The State of Andhra Pradesh & Ors.
    2025 INSC 101922 August 2025Disposed of

    Having regard to the provisions of the Indian Forest Service (Recruitment) Rules, 1966, more particularly the expression “State Forest Service” as defined in r.2(g), whether any service in a State connected with…

  • The Transmission Corporation of Telangana State Limited & Anr. v. Chukkala Kranthi Kiran & Ors.
    2025 INSC 102922 August 2025Disposed of

    Issue arose as regards the judgment and order passed by the Division Bench of the High Court setting aside notification cancelling the earlier notifications issued by erstwhile Transmission Corporation of Andhra Pradesh…

  • Dharam Singh & Ors. v. State Of U.P. & Anr.
    2025 INSC 99819 August 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Whether the High Court erred in failing to adjudicate the appellants’ principal challenge to the State’s refusals to sanction posts and treating the matter as a mere plea for regularization, and, if so, given the…

  • Pawan Kumar Tiwary and Others v. Jharkhand State Electricity Board
    2025 INSC 100019 August 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Whether the findings of the Division Bench with respect to illegality in the appointment of appellants warrant interference; if the appointment is held to be legal, whether they are entitled to any consequential…

  • K. Prabhakar Hegde v. Bank of Baroda
    2025 INSC 99719 August 2025Disposed of

    (i) Whether denial of the report of preliminary inquiry prepared by the officer entrusted by Vijaya Bank (which merged with the respondent in the year 2019) to conduct such inquiry, who happened to be the sole…

  • State of Karnataka v. Sri Darshan Etc.
    2025 INSC 97914 August 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Whether the order of the High Court granting bail to the respondents-accused persons in a case involving serious charges u/ss.302, 120B, and 34 IPC is perverse and legally unsustainable, warranting cancellation of bail.

  • Dasari Anil Kumar & Another v. The Child Welfare Project Director & Others
    2025 INSC 97212 August 2025Disposed of

    Whether the custody of the minor children in question ought to be handed over to the appellants-adoptive parents.

  • Arshnoor Kaur & Anr. v. The Union of India & Ors.
    2025 INSC 95411 August 2025Disposed of

    (i) Whether after allowing induction of women in a particular corp or branch under section 12 of the Army Act, 1950, can the Respondents by way of a policy and/or administrative instruction restrict the number of women…

  • IN RE: “CITY HOUNDED BY STRAYS, KIDS PAY PRICE” versus
    2025 INSC 97711 August 2025Directions issued

    In the instant petition, the issue centres around the disturbing pattern of dog bites in the country. Whether immediate steps need be taken to take care of the menace of dog bites leading to rabies.

  • XXX v. The Union of India & Others
    2025 INSC 9437 August 2025Dismissed

    Issue arose as to whether the writ petition be entertained at all having regard to the conduct of the petitioner-High Court Judge; does the In-house Procedure have legal sanction; is an inquiry and the consequent report…

  • Delhi Pollution Control Committee v. Lodhi Property Co. Ltd. Etc.
    2025 INSC 9233 August 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Whether the regulatory boards can, in exercise of powers u/s.33A of the Water Act and s.31A of the Air Act, impose and collect as restitutionary and compensatory damages fixed sums of monies or require furnishing bank…

  • Khem Singh (D) Through Lrs v. State of Uttaranchal (Now State of Uttarakhand) & Another Etc.
    2025 INSC 102431 July 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    During pendency of these appeals, son of original appellant (since deceased) filed an application seeking setting aside of the abatement and for substitution. Whether the applicant is entitled to be substituted in place…

  • K. Purushottam Reddy v. Union of India and Ors.
    2025 INSC 89425 July 2025Dismissed

    (a) Whether the exclusion of the States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana (or any other State), from the scope of delimitation under the Impugned Notifications and limiting it only to the Union Territory of Jammu and…

  • Vishu Vardhan @ Vishnu Pradhan v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors.
    2025 INSC 88423 July 2025Disposed of

    Issue arose whether the impugned order having merged with this Court’s order in Reddy Veerana’s case, as claimed by R, renders the present appeal which lays a collateral challenge to an order of this Court itself not…

  • United Bank of India (Now Punjab National Bank) v. Swapan Kumar Mullick & Ors.
    2025 INSC 88122 July 2025Disposed of

    Issue arose to determine whether an employee resigning from service citing mental depression, after having served his employer much in excess of the period stipulated to qualify for being entitled to pension, forfeits…

  • Khursheed Ahmad Chohan v. Union of Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Ors. Etc.
    2025 INSC 87621 July 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Issue arose as to whether the facts and circumstances disclosed in the complaint, supported by compelling medical evidence of grievous injuries, including complete genital mutilation, mandatorily required registration…

  • M Sambasiva Rao v. The State of Andhra Pradesh
    2025 INSC 86817 July 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Whether the High Court erred in convicting the appellant-accused no.1 u/s.120B, IPC and ss.7, 13(2) r/w s.13(1)(d), Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 by reversing the finding of acquittal of the Trial Court.

  • M/S Sonali Power Equipments Pvt. Ltd. v. Chairman, Maharashtra State Electricity Board, Mumbai & Ors.
    2025 INSC 86417 July 2025Partly allowed

    (i) Whether the Limitation Act applies to conciliation proceedings u/s.18 of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 (MSMED Act), and even if not, whether time-barred debts can be referred to…

  • Ram Charan & Ors. v. Sukhram & Ors.
    2025 INSC 86517 July 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Issue arose whether a tribal woman or her legal heirs would be entitled to an equal share in her ancestral property or not.

  • L. Muruganantham v. State of Tamil Nadu & Others
    2025 INSC 84415 July 2025Directions issued

    (A) Whether the order of the High Court enhancing compensation to Rs.5,00,000/- for the alleged violations committed against the appellant, while dismissing the complaint against respondent no.3, and partly allowing the…

  • Jaykishor Chaturvedi & Etc. v. Securities and Exchange Board of India
    2025 INSC 84615 July 2025Dismissed

    Whether interest on penalties imposed by the Adjudicating Officer is payable by the appellants, and if so, from which date-whether from the date of the adjudication orders passed by the Adjudicating Officer or the…

  • Mandeep Singh & Ors. v. State of Punjab and Ors.
    2025 INSC 83414 July 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    The matter pertains to legality of recruitment/selection of Assistant Professors and Librarians in Government Degree colleges of Punjab. The Division Bench of the High Court has reversed the findings of the Single Judge…

  • Ghanshyam Soni v. State (Govt. of NCT of Delhi) & Anr.
    2025 INSC 8034 June 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Issue arose whether the cognizance on the complaint u/ss.498A rw s.34 IPC was taken beyond the limitation period as mandated u/s.468 CrPC; and whether the prima facie case u/ss.498A rw s.34 IPC was made out against the…

  • Old Jalukai Village Council v. Kakiho Village & Ors.
    2025 INSC 76623 May 2025

    Whether it could be said that the respondent no.1-village had fulfilled all the necessary conditions/criteria for the issuance of formal order(s) of recognition as per the O.M.s dated 22.03.1996 and 01.10.2005…

  • The Reserve Bank of India v. M.T. Mani and Another
    2025 INSC 76923 May 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    RBI issued Administration Circular No.1 on 14.09.2020 opening a last option for the serving and retiring employees to switch over to pension scheme from CPF scheme. Whether the fixing of the cut off date i.e. 01.07.2020…

  • State of Kerala & Another v. Asianet Satellite Communications Ltd. & Others
    2025 INSC 75722 May 2025Disposed of

    The questions for consideration were: 1) Whether appellants-assessees, engaged in broadcasting of signals etc. through television channels to subscribers of those channels, were liable to pay entertainment tax under…

  • Pinky Meena v. The High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan at Jodhpur & Anr.
    2025 INSC 75621 May 2025

    Whether the appellant was wrongly discharged from service as a Civil Judge on the ground of non-disclosure of past government service as a Teacher and having obtained LL.B. and B.Ed degree simultaneously, and LL.M.…

  • Vanashakti v. Union of India
    2025 INSC 71816 May 2025

    Whether the 2017 Notification issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) in the context of the EIA Notification 2006 for grant of ex post facto environmental clearances (EC) is legal and…

  • Ishwar Chanda Sharma v. Devendra Kumar Sharma & Ors.
    2025 INSC 70015 May 2025Disposed of

    The issues raised in the present case relates to: (i) the eligibility of a receiver for Sri Giriraj Temple, Govardhan, Mathura; (ii) temples facing severe administrative issues of crowd management.

  • Mohit Kumar v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Ors.
    2025 INSC 70414 May 2025Disposed of

    Issue arose whether Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment and Promotion Board was bound to accept the OBC certificates submitted by aspirants which, admittedly, were not in the format prescribed in the recruitment…

  • Nagarajan & Anr. v. The State of Tamil Nadu
    2025 INSC 70314 May 2025Partly allowed

    Whether the benefit of the provisions of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 can be granted to the appellants; if the answer to the aforesaid issue is in the negative, can the reduced sentence that the Food Safety and…

  • Vijaya Bank & Anr. v. Prashant B Narnaware
    2025 INSC 69113 May 2025

    Matter pertains to whether clause 11(k) of the appointment letter that employee to work for minimum three years and in default to pay Rs 2 lakhs as liquidated damages on leaving employment amounts to restraint of trade…

  • Competition Commission of India v. Schott Glass India Pvt. Ltd. & Anr.
    2025 INSC 66813 May 2025Rejected

    I. Whether providing exclusionary volume based discounts, imposing contractual terms, refusing supply etc. will amount to abuse of dominant position? II. Whether the functional-discount / “no-Chinese” scheme (including…

  • Jitender @ Kalla v. State (Govt. of NCT of Delhi) and Anr.
    2025 INSC 66713 May 2025Reference answered

    (a) Whether the 100-point assessment laid down in Indira Jaising v. Supreme Court of India (2017) 9 SCC 766 and modified in Indira Indira Jaising v. Supreme Court of India (2023) 8 SCC 1 for the designation of Senior…

  • P. Nallammal v. State By The Inspector of Police, Vigilance and
    2025 INSC 6437 May 2025Dismissed

    Matter pertains to appeal challenging the conviction and sentence of the appellant u/s.109 IPC r/w ss.13(1)(e) and 13(2) of PC Act; appeal challenging the attachment Order as modified by the High Court; and the appeal…

  • A. Raja v. D. Kumar
    2025 INSC 6296 May 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Whether the Appellant belongs to the Hindu Parayan caste in the State of Kerala and is covered by the 1950 Order insofar as it relates to the State of Kerala; whether the Appellant had still retained the Hindu Parayan…

  • Kabir Paharia v. National Medical Commission and Others
    2025 INSC 6232 May 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Whether the denial of admission to the appellant in the MBBS UG course under Scheduled Castes PwBD quota was grossly illegal, arbitrary and violative of the appellant’s fundamental rights as guaranteed u/Arts.14 and 16…

  • K.R. Suresh v. R. Poornima & Ors.
    2025 INSC 6171 May 2025Dismissed

    Issue arose as regards the correctness of the order passed by the courts below dismissing the suit instituted by the appellant-purchaser for specific performance of contract; and whether the appellant entitled to the…

  • M/s Naresh Kumar Gupta v. State of Punjab & Another
    2025 INSC 7191 May 2025Disposed of

    Whether the amendment to s.29 of the Punjab Value Added Tax Act, 2005 (PVAT Act) by the Punjab Value Added Tax Act, 2013 is constitutionally valid or not.

  • R. Ranjith Singh & Ors. v. The State of Tamil Nadu & Ors.
    2025 INSC 6121 May 2025Disposed of

    The dispute involved in the present case is fixation of inter se seniority in respect of direct recruitment which includes some in-service candidates also recruited under the direct recruitment quota.

  • Pragya Prasun & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors.
    2025 INSC 59930 April 2025Disposed of

    1. Whether the present digital KYC / e-KYC / video-KYC framework is inaccessible to persons with disabilities? 2. Whether the regulatory authorities (RBI, SEBI, TRAI, PFRDA, IRDAI, DoT) have failed to ensure reasonable…

  • Rutu Mihir Panchal & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors.
    2025 INSC 59329 April 2025Disposed of

    Constitutionality of ss.34(1), 47(1)(a)(i) and 58(1)(a)(i) of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 prescribing pecuniary jurisdictions of the district, state and national commissions on the basis of value of goods and…

  • State of U.P. & Another v. Miss Bhavna Tiwari & Ors.
    2025 INSC 74729 April 2025Disposed of

    Streamlining of the counselling process in NEET-PG; curbing the malpractice of seat blocking to ensure transparency and fairness in the admission process; compensation of Rs.10,00,000/- awarded by the High Court to the…

  • The State of Sikkim v. Dr. Mool Raj Kotwal
    2025 INSC 55923 April 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Whether an employee of the State who had availed the benefit of leave encashment maximum of 300 days once on attaining the age of superannuation under Rule 36 of Sikkim Government Services (Leave) Rules, 1982, can…

  • Bijender Singh v. Union of India & Ors.
    2025 INSC 54923 April 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Matter pertains to the correctness of order passed by the tribunal dismissing the review application and holding that disability of the appellant was less than 20%.

  • Panchayati Raj, Lucknow v. Ram Prakash Singh
    2025 INSC 55522 April 2025Dismissed

    Whether, in pursuance of a purported enquiry where there was none to present the case of the department, no witness was examined in support of the charges and no document was formally proved, any order of punishment…

  • Md. Firoz Ahmad Khalid v. The State of Manipur & Ors.
    2025 INSC 53522 April 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Whether a Muslim Member of the Bar Council of the State or the Union territory (Bar Council), duly elected as a Member of the Waqf Board (Board) constituted u/s.14 of the Wakf Act, 1995, can continue to hold the said…

  • Central Bureau of Investigation v. Ramesh Chander Diwan
    2025 INSC 53922 April 2025Dismissed

    Whether the High Court was right in holding that sanction under Section 197, Cr.PC not having been obtained, the respondent should be discharged for the offences registered under Sections 120B and 420 of the IPC against…

  • Sachin v. State of Maharashtra
    2025 INSC 71621 April 2025Disposed of

    Issue arose whether, the High Court could enhance the sentence under its revisional powers in a convict’s appeal against conviction.

  • Directorate of Revenue Intelligence v. Raj Kumar Arora & Ors.
    2025 INSC 49817 April 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Issue arose whether an offence u/s.8(c) of the NDPS Act could be said to have been made out when an accused “deals with” psychotropic substances mentioned in the Schedule to the NDPS Act but not figuring in Schedule I…

  • Satish Chander Sharma & Ors. v. State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors.
    2025 INSC 49115 April 2025Dismissed

    Issue arose as to whether the decision in State of H.P. v. Rajesh Chander Sood, upholding the cut-off date of 02.12.2004, is per incuriam; whether the aforesaid decision is binding on the petitioners; whether a writ…

  • Janshruti (People’s Voice) v. Union of India & Ors.
    2025 INSC 53615 April 2025Dismissed

    Directions sought for the formulation of gender-neutral guidelines and legislation governing the filing of domestic violence and harassment complaints. Also, sought declaration regarding the constitutionality of s.498A…

  • Prabhjot Kaur v. State of Punjab and Ors.
    2025 INSC 4798 April 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Matter involves the question of reservations of posts in the government services of the State of Punjab; including reservation for women for the post of DSP under the ‘SC Sports’ category.

  • The State of Tamil Nadu v. The Governor of Tamil Nadu & Anr.
    2025 INSC 4818 April 2025Disposed of

    a. What courses of action are available to the Governor in exercise of his powers under Article 200 of the Constitution. b. Whether the Governor can reserve a Bill for the consideration of the President when it is…

  • M/s Celestium Financial v. A. Gnanasekaran Etc.
    2025 INSC 8048 April 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Issue arose as regards the maintainability of an appeal under proviso to s.372 CrPC against order of acquittal in a case instituted upon a private complaint u/s.138 Negotiable Instruments Act, by treating the…

  • State of West Bengal v. Baishakhi Bhattacharyya (Chatterjee) and Others
    2025 INSC 4373 April 2025Disposed of

    The issues before the Hon’ble Supreme Court were: I. Whether the recruitment process conducted by West Bengal School Service Commission in 2016 for appointment of Assistant Teachers (Classes IX–X and XI–XII) and…

  • Kashmiri Lal Sharma v. Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board Ltd. & Anr.
    2025 INSC 4722 April 2025Partly allowed

    Whether the benefit of extension of retirement age for the physically disabled category could be confined to persons with visual impairment as provided in the OM dated 29.03.2013 or it should be available to persons…

  • I.K. Merchants Pvt. Ltd. & Ors. v. The State of Rajasthan & Ors.
    2025 INSC 4181 April 2025Disposed of

    Issue arose as regards the appropriate rate of interest to be awarded on the enhanced valuation of shares sold by the appellants to the Respondent No.1-State in 1973 as determined by the High Court and affirmed by…

  • Firoz Khan Akbarkhan v. The State of Maharashtra
    2025 INSC 38724 March 2025Dismissed

    Whether the concurrent conviction of the appellant u/s.302 r/w s.34, Penal Code, 1860 is justified; whether he is entitled to remission of sentence.

  • Yerikala Sunkalamma & Anr. v. State of Andhra Pradesh, Department of Revenue & Ors.
    2025 INSC 38324 March 2025Disposed of

    Whether the High Court was correct in setting aside the judgment of the trial court whereby the appellants were held to be the lawful owners of the ‘Patta Land’.

  • A. John Kennedy Etc. v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others Etc.
    2025 INSC 44324 March 2025Directions issued

    The issues related to removal of encroachments and restoration of forest areas in the Agasthyamalai landscape, which includes within its ambit the Periyar Tiger Reserve, Srivilliputhur Grizzled Squirrel Wildlife…

  • The Auroville Foundation v. Navroz Kersasp Mody & Ors.
    2025 INSC 34716 March 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Matter pertains to the correctness of judgment passed by the National Green Tribunal giving directions to the appellant-Foundation as regards the construction of roads in Auroville Township.

  • Pradeep Nirankarnath Sharma v. State of Gujarat & Ors.
    2025 INSC 35016 March 2025Dismissed

    Does the decision in Lalita Kumari v. Government of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. [2013] 14 SCR 713 create an absolute rule that a preliminary inquiry must be conducted in every case before the registration of an FIR.

  • M/s Shri Sendhur Agro & Oil Industries v. Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.
    2025 INSC 3286 March 2025Disposed of

    Issue arose whether a complaint filed u/s.138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, can be ordered to be transferred from one court to the other having territorial jurisdiction to try the offence in exercise of powers…

  • Joyi Kitty Joseph v. Union of India & Ors.
    2025 INSC 3275 March 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    The wife of the detenu; detained under the provisions of the Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974 (COFEPOSA Act) is challenging the order of detention.

  • IN RE: RECRUITMENT OF VISUALLY IMPAIRED IN JUDICIAL SERVICES versus
    2025 INSC 3002 March 2025Disposed of

    Whether visually impaired candidates can be said to be ‘not suitable’ for judicial service; Whether the amendment made in Rule 6A of Madhya Pradesh Judicial Services (Recruitment and Conditions of Service) Rules, 1994…

  • Sarita Choudhary v. High Court of Madhya Pradesh & Another
    2025 INSC 28928 February 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Matter pertains to the correctness of order passed by the High Court terminating two women Judicial Officers from service during probation period; and whether the cessation of services of two Judicial Officers is…

  • The State of Chattisgarh v. Ashok Bhoi Etc.
    2025 INSC 25627 February 2025Dismissed

    Whether the High Court was justified in allowing the criminal appeal preferred by accused-respondent and dismissing acquittal appeal preferred by the State, thereby acquitting both the accused persons.

  • Dr. Sunil Kumar Singh v. Bihar Legislative Council (Through Secretary) and Ors.
    2025 INSC 26425 February 2025Allowed

    (1) Whether the instant writ petition is maintainable in view of Article 212 (1) of the Constitution of India and whether the proceedings of the ethics committee are amenable to judicial review? (2) Whether this court…

  • Lifecare Innovations Pvt. Ltd. & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors.
    2025 INSC 26924 February 2025Disposed of

    Issue arose whether the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006, coupled with the Public Procurement Policy for Micro and Small Enterprises Order 2012 mandate procurement of 25 percent of goods and…

  • State of Odisha & Ors. v. Sudhansu Sekhar Jena
    2025 INSC 25921 February 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Issue arose as regards the computation of pensionary benefits of Job contract employees, only such period of their service as ‘Job Contractors’ to be counted for pensionary benefits as was sufficient to entitle them for…

  • State of Kerala & Ors. v. Moushmi Ann Jacob
    2025 INSC 25520 February 2025Appeal(s) allowed

    Whether under Notification dated 25.02.2021 issued under the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Act, 2008, a land owner with more than 25 cents is liable to pay conversion fee for the entire land holding or…

  • Maatr Sparsh An Initiative by Avyaan Foundation v. Union of India & Others
    2025 INSC 30219 February 2025Disposed of

    1. Whether a Writ of Mandamus should be issued to the Respondents to act and thereby construct feeding rooms and child care rooms, etc. or any other facilities related to infants and mothers at public places. 2. Whether…

  • IN RE: POLICY STRATEGY FOR GRANT OF BAIL versus
    2025 INSC 23918 February 2025Directions issued

    The first issue is whether the power to grant remission can be exercised without the convict or anyone on behalf of the convict applying to the appropriate Government for a grant of remission. The second issue is about…

  • Dr. Poornima Advani & Anr. v. Government of NCT & Anr.
    2025 INSC 26218 February 2025Disposed of

    Whether in the facts and circumstances of the case, the Appellants would be entitled to claim interest on delayed stamp duty refund, in the absence of a provision in the statute to that effect.

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