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Supreme Court judgments on Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016

126 judgments, latest first, from 2018 to 2026. Listed when the Supreme Court Reports file the judgment's headnote under this Act, as printed at the start of the headnote. Judgments that only mention it in passing are not listed.

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CA Ramchandra Dallaram Choudhary vs Adani Infrastructure and Developers Private Limited
SC · 1 June 2026
[2026] 7 S.C.R. 208 : 2026 INSC 629
Issue arose that where an appeal u/s.62 IBC is filed within time, i.e., 45 (forty-five) days or beyond the said period but before expiry of 60 (sixty) days as contemplated in the sub-sections thereof and are marked defec…
Angelwoods Apartment Allottees Association vs M Lalitha and Another
SC · 12 May 2026
[2026] 5 S.C.R. 577 : 2026 INSC 479
Whether the filing/refiling of the appeal by respondent No.1 was incurably tainted and ought to have been rejected at the threshold by NCLAT.
Alpha Corp Development Private Limited vs Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) and Others
SC · 5 May 2026
[2026] 5 S.C.R. 364 : 2026 INSC 449
Issues arose inter alia as to whether in the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) proceedings of the Corporate DebtorEarth Infrastructures Limited, the assets of the land holding companies, i.e., subsidiary of…
Nitendra Kumar Tomer, Suspended Director, Ambro Asia Private Limited vs Unox S.P.A. and Another
SC · 10 April 2026
[2026] 5 S.C.R. 146 : 2026 INSC 356
Once the prescribed limitation period u/s.61(2) of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 expired, whether it was open to the suspended director to take steps to convert the incompetent appeal and maintain an appeal in his…
Elegna Co-op. Housing and Commercial Society Ltd. vs Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction Company Limited & Anr.
SC · 15 January 2026
[2026] 1 S.C.R. 850 : 2026 INSC 58
Issue arose whether the NCLAT was correct in admitting Corporate Debtor into the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process; and whether the NCLAT was correct in rejecting the Intervention application filed by the Society.
Ansal Crown Heights Flat Buyers Association (Regd.) vs M/s Ansal Crown Infrabuild Pvt. Ltd. & Ors.
SC · 12 January 2026
[2026] 1 S.C.R. 580 : 2026 INSC 51
Issue arose as to whether persons who were arrayed as respondents in the consumer complaints but ultimately against whom no notice was issued and the complaints did not proceed, could be brought within the net of executi…
UV Asset Reconstruction Company Limited vs Electrosteel Castings Limited
SC · 6 January 2026
[2026] 1 S.C.R. 130 : 2026 INSC 14
Issue pertains to the interpretation of Clause 2.2 of Deed of Undertaking executed between SREI-original creditor, which subsequently assigned all its rights and interests in favour of the appellant; ESL-borrower; and EC…
Mansi Brar Fernandes vs Shubha Sharma and Anr.
SC · 12 September 2025
[2025] 10 S.C.R. 169 : 2025 INSC 1110
Whether the appellants, fall within the category of “speculative investors” so as to disentitle them from initiating proceedings u/s.7 of the IBC; whether the Ordinance/Amendment Act introducing threshold requirements fo…
Amit Nehra & Anr. vs Pawan Kumar Garg & Ors.
SC · 9 September 2025
[2025] 9 S.C.R. 627 : 2025 INSC 1086
Whether the appellants, being allottees of an apartment in a project developed by the erstwhile Corporate Debtor and having admittedly paid a sum of Rs.57,56,684/- out of the total consideration of Rs.60,06,368/-, are to…
IL & FS Financial Services Limited vs Adhunik Meghalaya Steels Private Limited
SC · 30 July 2025
[2025] 7 S.C.R. 1823 : 2025 INSC 911
Whether the Tribunals below were justified in holding that the s.7 application under the IBC filed by the appellant on 15.01.2024 was barred by time; does the entry in the Balance Sheet of F.Y. 2019-20 constitute a valid…
Visa Coke Limited vs M/s Mesco Kalinga Steel Limited
SC · 29 April 2025
[2025] 4 S.C.R. 1950 : 2025 INSC 597
Issue arose whether the notice served by the appellant-Operational Creditor upon the Key Managerial Personnel-KMP of the respondent-Corporate Debtor at their registered office constitutes valid service of the statutory d…
Electrosteel Steel Limited (Now M/s ESL Steel Limited) vs Ispat Carrier Private Limited
SC · 21 April 2025
[2025] 4 S.C.R. 1373 : 2025 INSC 525
Whether upon approval of the resolution plan by the NCLT, the claim of the respondent being outside the purview of the resolution plan stood extinguished; whether the arbitral award dated 06.07.2018 was capable of being…
A. Rajendra vs Gonugunta Madhusudhan Rao & Ors.
SC · 4 April 2025
[2025] 4 S.C.R. 681 : 2025 INSC 447
Whether the limitation to file an appeal under Section 60(5) of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code starts from the date of pronouncement of the order or from the date when the order is communicated to the parties.
Piramal Capital and Housing Finance Limited (Formerly Known as Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited) vs 63 Moons Technologies Limited & Others
SC · 1 April 2025
[2025] 4 S.C.R. 344 : 2025 INSC 421
Whether Resolution Plan-RP approved by Committee of Creditors-CoC and NCLT was in contravention of provisions of any law requiring NCLAT to exercise its jurisdiction u/s.61 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016; wh…
Rakesh Bhanot vs M/s. Gurdas Agro Pvt. Ltd.
SC · 1 April 2025
[2025] 4 S.C.R. 573 : 2025 INSC 445
Issue arose whether the proceedings initiated against the appellants u/s.138 rw s.141 of the Negotiable Instruments Act should be stayed in view of the interim moratorium u/s.96 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 201…
M/s JSW Steel Limited vs Pratishtha Thakur Haritwal & Ors.
SC · 27 March 2025
[2025] 3 S.C.R. 1200 : 2025 INSC 401
Whether the case of the present Petitioner is specifically covered by the judgment of this Court in the case of Ghanshyam Mishra and Sons Private Limited v. Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction Company Limited and Others [2021…
Vaibhav Goel & Anr. vs Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax & Anr.
SC · 20 March 2025
[2025] 3 S.C.R. 841 : 2025 INSC 375
Matter pertains to the validity of the income tax dues of the corporate debtor owed to the Central Government, when not a part of the approved Resolution Plan.
Vishnoo Mittal vs M/s Shakti Trading Company
SC · 17 March 2025
[2025] 4 S.C.R. 41 : 2025 INSC 346
Whether the High Court was justified in relying upon P. Mohan Raj case which held that the immunity granted by the moratorium order issued under Section 14, IBC can only be obtained by a Corporate Debtor and not by a nat…
Saranga Anilkumar Aggarwal vs Bhavesh Dhirajlal Sheth & Ors.
SC · 4 March 2025
[2025] 3 S.C.R. 325 : 2025 INSC 314
Whether the execution of penalty orders passed by the NCDRC can be stayed under the interim moratorium provisions of s.96 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.
Bank of Baroda vs Farooq Ali Khan & Ors.
SC · 20 February 2025
[2025] 2 S.C.R. 687 : 2025 INSC 253
Whether the High Court could have justifiably invoked judicial review u/Art.226 of the Constitution to interdict personal insolvency proceedings initiated against respondent no.1 u/s.95 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy C…
Independent Sugar Corporation Ltd. vs Girish Sriram Juneja & Ors.
SC · 29 January 2025
[2025] 1 S.C.R. 1782 : 2025 INSC 124
Whether the approval of a proposed combination by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) must mandatorily precede the approval of the Resolution Plan, by the Committee of Creditors (CoC), as stipulated under the provi…
Mohammed Enterprises (Tanzania) Ltd. vs Farooq Ali Khan & Ors.
SC · 3 January 2025
[2025] 1 S.C.R. 177 : 2025 INSC 25
Whether the High Court was justified in interdicting CIRP proceedings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.
China Development Bank vs Doha Bank Q.P.S.C. & Ors.
SC · 20 December 2024
[2024] 12 S.C.R. 2043 : 2024 INSC 1029
Whether the appellants can be classified as ‘Financial Creditors’ within the meaning of s.5(7) of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.
State Bank of India & Ors. vs The Consortium of Mr. Murari Lal Jalan and Mr. Florian Fritsch & Anr.
SC · 7 November 2024
[2024] 11 S.C.R. 2039 : 2024 INSC 852
Whether the Performance Bank Guarantee (PBG) could have been adjusted against the first tranche payment which was to be made under the Resolution Plan, within 180 days from the Effective Date, in contravention of the ord…
M/s HPCL Bio-Fuels Ltd. vs M/s Shahaji Bhanudas Bhad
SC · 7 November 2024
[2024] 12 S.C.R. 133 : 2024 INSC 851
(i) Whether a fresh application u/s.11(6) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 filed by the respondent could be said to be maintainable more particularly when no liberty to file a fresh application was granted b…
Noida Special Economic Zone Authority vs Manish Agarwal & Ors.
SC · 5 November 2024
[2024] 11 S.C.R. 489 : 2024 INSC 839
The appellant-NOIDA Special Economic Zone Authority filed a claim of INR 06.29 Crores which was admitted by the Respondent No.01Resolution Professional. The NCLT vide order dated 05.10.2020, granted only INR 50 Lakhs to…
GLAS Trust Company LLC vs BYJU Raveendran & Ors.
SC · 23 October 2024
[2024] 10 S.C.R. 1802 : 2024 INSC 811
Whether the appellant, who was not a party to the settlement between the second respondent-BCCI (Operational Creditor) and the Corporate Debtor, has locus in the proceedings before this Court; whether the NCLAT erred in…
Vidyasagar Prasad vs UCO Bank & Anr.
SC · 22 October 2024
[2024] 10 S.C.R. 1462 : 2024 INSC 810
Whether specific and clear acknowledgement of debt by the Corporate Debtor in its balance sheet is necessary while considering limitation under Section 18 of the Limitation Act, 1963.
V.S. Palanivel vs P. Sriram, CS, Liquidator, Etc.
SC · 28 August 2024
[2024] 8 S.C.R. 1263 : 2024 INSC 659
(i) Whether the Tribunal was right in accepting the view taken by the Adjudicating Authority that Covid-19 lockdown was a valid reason for extension of time to deposit the balance sale consideration; (ii) Whether the app…
BRS Ventures Investments Ltd. vs SREI Infrastructure Finance Ltd. & Anr.
SC · 23 July 2024
[2024] 7 S.C.R. 2143 : 2024 INSC 548
Whether the payment of Rs.38.87 crores to the financial creditor under the resolution plan of the corporate guarantor will extinguish the liability of the principal borrower/corporate debtor to pay the entire amount paya…

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