Landmark Judgments

464 Supreme Court judgments from 1950 to 2026, chosen from the cases our judiciary, CLAT and AIBE questions cite most. Each digest gives the facts, the questions before the Court, what it held and passages in the Court's own words, with a link to the official judgment.

Judgments: 464
Constitution Benches: 139
Subjects: 27

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6 of 464 judgments

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. v. Cyrus Investments Pvt. Ltd.2021Company Law3 judges
The Court set aside the NCLAT order reinstating Cyrus Mistry and restraining Tata Sons, holding that no case of oppressive or prejudicial conduct under Sections 241 and…
Miheer H. Mafatlal v. Mafatlal Industries Ltd.1996Company Law2 judges
The Court upheld the sanction of a scheme of amalgamation under Section 391 of the Companies Act, 1956, holding that the Company Court's role is supervisory, not…
Delhi Development Authority v. Skipper Construction Co.1996Company Law2 judges
Acting under Articles 129 and 142, the Court lifted the corporate veil of a family company, treated its property as the contemnors' own, and attached it to secure…
Life Insurance Corporation of India v. Escorts Ltd.1985Company Law5-judge bench
The Court held that Reserve Bank permission under Section 29(1)(b) FERA could be ex post facto, and that LIC, as a shareholder, could requisition a general meeting to…
Official Liquidator, Supreme Bank Ltd. v. P.A. Tendolkar1973Company Law3 judges
In misfeasance proceedings against bank directors, the Court held the claims within time under Section 45-O, restored the directors' total liability, and held that only…
Bacha F. Guzdar v. Commissioner of Income-tax, Bombay1954Company Law5-judge bench
A dividend paid by a tea company is not agricultural income in the shareholder's hands, though 60% of the company's income is exempt, because it arises from the…

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Where the bench split, the holdings given are the majority's. Where a later judgment in this library overrules or explains a case, that case's page says so, quoting the later Court's words.
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