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Supreme Court judgments on Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016

15 judgments, latest first, from 2021 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.

Sujata Bora vs Coal India Limited & Ors.
SC · 13 January 2026
[2026] 1 S.C.R. 590 : 2026 INSC 53
Whether the appellant was wrongly denied employment, despite having qualified for the interview, and declared unfit on the ground that she had multiple disability but had applied as a visually handicapped candidate (sinc…
Mission Accessibility vs Union of India & Ors.
SC · 3 December 2025
[2025] 12 S.C.R. 443 : 2025 INSC 1376
In the instant petition, the petitioner sought for the modification of the timeline for scribe registration in the Civil Services Examination conducted by Union Public Service Commission and for permitting the use of lap…
Reena Banerjee and Another vs Government of NCT of Delhi and Others
SC · 12 September 2025
[2025] 9 S.C.R. 855 : 2025 INSC 1101
The present case concerns the implementation of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 along with the prolonged institutionalisation. The lack of access to education, health, and community life for persons res…
L. Muruganantham vs State of Tamil Nadu & Others
SC · 15 July 2025
[2025] 7 S.C.R. 935 : 2025 INSC 844
(A) Whether the order of the High Court enhancing compensation to Rs.5,00,000/- for the alleged violations committed against the appellant, while dismissing the complaint against respondent no.3, and partly allowing the…
Kashmiri Lal Sharma vs Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board Ltd. & Anr.
SC · 3 April 2025
[2025] 5 S.C.R. 446 : 2025 INSC 472
Whether the benefit of extension of retirement age for the physically disabled category could be confined to persons with visual impairment as provided in the OM dated 29.03.2013 or it should be available to persons suff…
In Re: Recruitment of Visually Impaired in Judicial Services vs -
SC · 3 March 2025
[2025] 4 S.C.R. 222 : 2025 INSC 300
Whether visually impaired candidates can be said to be ‘not suitable’ for judicial service; Whether the amendment made in Rule 6A of Madhya Pradesh Judicial Services (Recruitment and Conditions of Service) Rules, 1994 fa…
Gulshan Kumar vs Institute of Banking Personnel Selection & Ors.
SC · 3 February 2025
[2025] 2 S.C.R. 313 : 2025 INSC 142
Matter pertains to extending the benefits for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities-PwBD candidates to all persons with disabilities-PwD candidates in writing their examinations.
Rajive Raturi vs Union of India & Ors.
SC · 8 November 2024
[2024] 11 S.C.R. 970 : 2024 INSC 858
Writ Petition sought directions to ensure meaningful access to public spaces for persons with disabilities (PWDs). Directions were issued by this Court to the States and Union Territories however, in view of slow progres…
Om Rathod vs The Director General of Health Services & Ors.
SC · 25 October 2024
[2024] 10 S.C.R. 2187 : 2024 INSC 836
Appellant had lower limb myopathy, a locomotor disability. He secured an all India PwD rank of 84 and a State PwD rank of 4 in NEET UG Examination 2024. However, was held ineligible to pursue MBBS course by the designate…
Omkar Ramchandra Gond vs The Union of India & Ors.
SC · 15 October 2024
[2024] 10 S.C.R. 673 : 2024 INSC 775
Whether the appellant should be disqualified from obtaining admission under the PwD category for the MBBS Course merely because his disability is quantified at 44% /45%.
Nipun Malhotra vs Sony Pictures Films India Private Limited & Ors.
SC · 8 July 2024
[2024] 7 S.C.R. 246 : 2024 INSC 465
The appellant is a person with arthrogryposis and is aggrieved by the manner in which persons with disabilities have been portrayed in the movie titled ‘Aankh Micholi’. The appellant seeks guidelines against filmmakers,…
Reserve Bank of India & Ors. vs A.K. Nair & Ors.
SC · 4 July 2023
[2023] 10 S.C.R. 775 : 2023 INSC 613
Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunity, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 – s. 33 – Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 – s. 34 – Reservation in promotion for person with disabilities…
Ravinder Kumar Dhariwal & Anr. vs The Union of India & Ors.
SC · 17 December 2021
[2021] 13 S.C.R. 823 : 2021 INSC 916
Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016 – s. 20 – Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act 1951 – s. 47 – Non-discrimination in Government employments – Discip…
Avni Prakash vs National Testing Agency (Nta) & Ors.
SC · 23 November 2021
[2021] 11 S.C.R. 891 : 2021 INSC 781
Rights of Persons with Disability Act, 2016: ss. 2(r), 17(i), 32, Schedule Entry 2(a) – Person with disability(PwD) – Compensatory time of one hour to write entrance exam – Claim of – Appellant student sufferring from Dy…
Vikash Kumar vs Union Public Service Commission & Ors.
SC · 11 February 2021
[2021] 12 S.C.R. 311 : 2021 INSC 78
Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 – ss. 2(r), 2(s), 2(y), 3 and 56 – Civil Services Examination Rules, 2018 – Facility of a scribe in the Civil Services Examination – Entitlement to – The appellant has a disa…

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