Landmark Judgments

397 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: 397
Constitution Benches: 137
Subjects: 24

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Hemant Kumar v. State of Haryana2026Service Law2 judges
The Court held the absorption of four deputationists as Assistant Engineers in Haryana's PW(B&R) Department illegal and void, since no special circumstances existed…
Aligarh Muslim University v. Mansoor Ali Khan2000Service Law2 judges
Absence of the notice required by Rule 5(8)(i) before deeming vacation of post did not vitiate the order, because on admitted facts only one conclusion was possible and…
Apparel Export Promotion Council v. A.K. Chopra1999Service Law
A superior's unwelcome sexually determined conduct towards a female employee is sexual harassment even without physical contact, and the High Court wrongly interfered…
Parshotam Lal Dhingra v. Union of India1957Service Law5-judge bench
The Court held that Article 311 protects permanent, temporary and officiating Government servants alike, but applies only to dismissal, removal or reduction in rank by…

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Every digest is written from the judgment itself, taken from the Supreme Court's own website (sci.gov.in), and links to that file.
Quoted passages are copied from the official text and were checked against it word for word; each gives the page of the PDF.
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.
A digest is a study aid. Read the judgment before citing it.

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