Judge-Wise Statistics Of Reportable Judgments Of Supreme Court In March 2022
In March 2022, the Supreme Court delivered 69 Reportable Judgments. Interestingly, in this month, the Supreme Court also reported 2 Judgments, where a split verdict was delivered by the Bench, requiring the matter to be referred to the Chief Justice to be placed before an appropriate bench. One split verdict was delivered by a Bench comprising of Justice Indira Banerjee and...
In March 2022, the Supreme Court delivered 69 Reportable Judgments. Interestingly, in this month, the Supreme Court also reported 2 Judgments, where a split verdict was delivered by the Bench, requiring the matter to be referred to the Chief Justice to be placed before an appropriate bench. One split verdict was delivered by a Bench comprising of Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice J.K Maheshwari on the issue of applicability of Section 155(2) of Cr.P.C. to an offence u/S. 23 of the POCSO Act. The second split judgment was delivered by a Bench comprising of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Bela Trivedi on the issue of whether a plea of limitation could be decided as a preliminary issue (without leading evidence), while dealing with an application for rejection of plaint.
Overall, in March, the Supreme Court passed 8,605 Orders (average of approximately 400 Orders per working day), including orders passed at admission stage, final disposals in Court, matters before the single judge, review orders, etc.
The authors of this article present to you a statistical study alongwith a searchable PDF of all Reportable Judgments delivered by the Supreme Court in March 2022. The searchable PDF is a detailed Table covering all Reportable Judgments, arranged Judge-wise, including the ratio, Bench strength, Judgment date and name, with all Judgments hyperlinked for easy access to the reader. It is also clarified that the statistical study and searchable PDF are restricted only to "Reportable Judgments", excluding Daily Orders, Non-Reportable Judgments / Orders, and Review Orders.
The distribution of subject-wise Reportable Judgments for March 2022 is as under :
| Area / Subject of Law | Number of Judgments
|
| Civil Law | 17 |
| Criminal Law | 11 |
| Service Law | 22 |
| Environmental Law | 2 |
| Land Acquisition | 5 |
| Tax Law | 1 |
| Insolvency & Bankruptcy | 1 |
| Reservation Law | 1 |
| Constitutional Law | 5 |
| Labour Law | 1 |
| Educational Institutions | 1 |
| MACT matters | 1 |
| Securities Law | 1 |
| Total | 69 |
Out of the 69 reportable judgments, 45 were cases where the Court allowed the appeal / petition; 13 were cases where the Court dismissed the appeal / petition; 6 were cases where the proceeding before the Court was disposed of with some directions; and 5 were cases where the Court partly allowed the appeal / petition. The percentage-wise distribution of outcome of reportable judgments in March 2022 is as under :
The searchable PDF can be accessed with this article.
Authored & Compiled by
Ms. Vidhi Thaker and Mr. Prastut Dalvi
(Advocates, Supreme Court of India)