The year 2025 was remarkable for the Supreme Court for several reasons. For one, it completed 75 years of existence, and second, it will be remembered for the reversals of its own orders. https://thewire.in/law/supreme-court-reversed-eight-of-its-own-judgments-in-2025
The top court highlighted this “growing trend” in the November Sk. Md. Anisur Rahaman judgment. The bench comprising Justices Dipankar Datta and A.G. Masih “painfully observed” how “verdicts pronounced by Judges, whether still in office or not and irrespective of the time lapse since pronounced, [were] being overturned by succeeding benches or specially constituted benches at the behest of some party aggrieved by the verdicts prior in point of time.”
Last year the Supreme Court recalled at least eight of its own orders – three of which were passed by Justice J.B. Pardiwala’s bench – ranging from subjects like judicial discipline, environmental issues and corporate matters.
by Ritika Jain
03/01/2026