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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12 of 464 judgments

Srinivasa Reddy Velagala v. Sravanthi Infratech Pvt. Ltd.2026Insolvency Law2 judges
A Section 9 IBC application filed more than three years after the acknowledged default was time-barred; a subsisting EPC contract gives no continuing cause of action,…
Tata Steel Ltd. v. Varsha2026Insolvency Law2 judges
Under the approved resolution plan for Bhushan Steel, sub judice claims of operational creditors admitted at Rupee One stood extinguished, so their pending civil suit…
Pooja Ramesh Singh v. Jammu and Kashmir Bank Ltd.2026Insolvency Law2 judges
A decision that relies on fake or hallucinated AI-generated material as precedent is no decision in law; the NCLT admission order and the NCLAT appeal order were set…
Lalit Kumar Jain v. Union of India2021Insolvency Law2 judges
The Central Government's notification of 15 November 2019 bringing the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code into force for personal guarantors to corporate debtors is valid,…
Ghanashyam Mishra and Sons Pvt. Ltd. v. Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction Co. Ltd.2021Insolvency Law3 judges
Once the Adjudicating Authority approves a resolution plan under Section 31 IBC, it binds all creditors including governments, and every claim not in the plan, statutory…
P. Mohanraj v. Shah Brothers Ispat Pvt. Ltd.2021Insolvency Law3 judges
Proceedings under Sections 138 and 141 of the Negotiable Instruments Act against a corporate debtor are 'proceedings' barred by the moratorium in Section 14(1)(a) IBC,…
Manish Kumar v. Union of India2021Insolvency Law3 judges
The Court upheld the 2020 IBC amendments: the threshold of 100 or ten per cent for allottees and certain financial creditors under Section 7, the deemed withdrawal of…
Committee of Creditors of Essar Steel India Ltd. v. Satish Kumar Gupta2019Insolvency Law3 judges
The Court set aside the NCLAT's equal redistribution under Essar Steel's resolution plan, holding that distribution is for the Committee of Creditors' commercial wisdom,…
Pioneer Urban Land and Infrastructure Ltd. v. Union of India2019Insolvency Law3 judges
The 2018 amendments to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code treating home buyers (allottees) as financial creditors are constitutionally valid; RERA and the Code operate…
Swiss Ribbons Pvt. Ltd. v. Union of India2019Insolvency Law2 judges
The Court upheld the constitutional validity of the challenged provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, including the financial and operational creditor…
Mobilox Innovations Pvt. Ltd. v. Kirusa Software Pvt. Ltd.2017Insolvency Law2 judges
An operational creditor's insolvency application under Section 9 IBC must be rejected if the corporate debtor shows a pre-existing dispute that is plausible and not…
Innoventive Industries Ltd. v. ICICI Bank2017Insolvency Law2 judges
Upholding admission of ICICI Bank's Section 7 application, the Court held that the Maharashtra Relief Undertakings Act is repugnant to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy…

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