Supreme Court of India Judgements

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Category: Service

Service Matters
Service

Enhancement of Age of superannuation – HELD enhancement of the age of superannuation is a ‘public function’ channelised by the provisions of the statute and the service regulations, the doctrine of promissory estoppel cannot be used to challenge the action of NOIDA – Though NOIDA sought the approval of the State government for the enhancement with ‘immediate effect’ , it never intended or portrayed to have intended to give retrospective effect to the prospectively applicable Government order

Aug 8, 2021 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH NEW OKHLA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND ANOTHER — Appellant Vs. B. D. SINGHAL AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : Dr. Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud…

Service Matters
Service

Daily wagers who have completed 10 years or more of continuous service with a minimum of 240 days in each calendar year as on 31.12.1999 shall be regularized as regular employees with effect from 01.01.2000 and shall be placed in the time-scale of pay applicable to the corresponding lowest grade in the university subject to certain terms and conditions

Aug 7, 2021 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH VICE CHANCELLOR ANAND AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY — Appellant Vs. KANUBHAI NANUBHAI VAGHELA AND ANOTHER — Respondent ( Before : L. Nageswara Rao and Aniruddha Bose,…

Service Matters
Service

Caste Certificate Rules – High Court grossly erred in failing to appreciate that the appellant held a valid caste certificate from the competent authority in the State of Maharashtra under Rule 6(1)(a) in Form 10 in accordance with the prescribed procedure, the genuineness and validity of which was not in question before it – Furthermore, the appellant was not seeking the reserved status for the purpose of education or employment

Aug 7, 2021 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH ARUNA — Appellant Vs. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : Navin Sinha and R. Subhash Reddy, JJ. ) Civil…

Service Matters
Service

Uttar Pradesh Regularisation of Ad hoc Appointments HELD Determination of Seniority – Services rendered by the ad hoc appointees prior to their regularisation as per the 1979 Rules shall not be counted for the purpose of seniority, vis-à-vis, the direct recruits who were appointed prior to 1989 and they are not entitled to seniority from the date of their initial appointment in the year 1985.

Aug 7, 2021 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH RASHI MANI MISHRA AND OTHERS — Appellant Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : Dr. Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud and…

Service Matters
Service

Penalty of compulsory retirement from the post of Additional District and Sessions Judge – Multiple transactions showing deposits and withdrawals of substantial amounts of money, it cannot be said that Full Court was not justified in taking the view that it did – Compulsory retirement upheld

Aug 4, 2021 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH RAJINDER GOEL — Appellant Vs. HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AND ANOTHER — Respondent ( Before : Uday Umesh Lalit and Ajay Rastogi,…

Service Matters
Service

Criterion of “seniority – cum – merit” in the matter of promotion postulates that given the minimum necessary merit requisite for efficiency of administration, the senior, even though less meritorious, shall have priority and a comparative assessment of merit is not required to be made

Aug 1, 2021 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH TEK CHAND AND OTHERS — Appellant Vs. BHAKRA BEAS MANAGEMENT BOARD (B.B.M.S.) AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : Navin Sinha and R. Subhash…

Service Matters
Service

Service Law – Higher Pay Scale – Grant of benefits of higher pay scale to the Central/State Government employees stand on different footing than grant of pay scale by an instrumentality of the State – Employees of Punjab State Co-operative Milk Producers Federation are entitled to pay scale equivalent to their counterparts in State of Punjab

Jul 18, 2021 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH PUNJAB STATE CO-OPERATIVE MILK PRODUCERS FEDERATION LIMITED AND ANOTHER — Appellant Vs. BALBIR KUMAR WALIA AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : Sanjay Kishan…

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Acquittal

Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) — Sections 302, 449, 376, 394 — Appeal against High Court’s upholding of conviction and sentence — Case based on circumstantial evidence — Absence of direct evidence connecting appellant to offense — Falsely implicated — Prosecution failed to establish guilt beyond reasonable doubt — No scientific evidence linking appellant — Important witnesses not associated in investigation or produced in court — Appeal allowed, conviction and sentence set aside.

Nov 2, 2025 sclaw
Cheque Dishonour

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — Section 138 — Dishonour of cheque — Quashing of proceedings — Cheques issued as security and not for consideration — Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) clearly stated cheques were for security purposes to show banks and not for deposit — Complainant failed to read the complete terms of MOU in isolation and misinterpreted it to claim cheques were converted into debt — Court empowered to consider unimpeachable documents at pre-trial stage to prevent injustice — Complaints under Section 138 NI Act liable to be quashed.

Nov 2, 2025 sclaw
General Insurance

Insurance Law — Fire Insurance — Accidental Fire — Cause of fire is immaterial if the insured is not the instigator and there is no fraud. The objective of fire insurance is to indemnify the insured against loss by fire.

Nov 2, 2025 sclaw
Tenders

Tender Conditions — Interpretation — Ambiguity — The terms of a tender must be clear and unambiguous — If a tendering authority intends for a specific document to be issued by a particular authority, it must be clearly stated in the tender conditions — Failure to do so may lead to rejection of the bid being deemed arbitrary and dehors the tender terms.

Nov 2, 2025 sclaw