This article provides a curated list of 200 landmark cases of India, including 50 Constitution cases, 50 BNSS cases, 50 BNS cases, and 50 BSA cases. It serves as a quick reference for law students, judiciary aspirants, advocates, and anyone looking to revise important Indian case law.

50 Landmark Constitution Cases

  1. A.K. Gopalan v. State of Madras (1950)
  2. Romesh Thappar v. State of Madras (1950)
  3. Brij Bhushan v. State of Delhi (1950)
  4. Champakam Dorairajan v. State of Madras (1951)
  5. Shankari Prasad v. Union of India (1951)
  6. State of West Bengal v. Bela Banerjee (1954)
  7. In Re: Kerala Education Bill (1958)
  8. In Re: Berubari Union and Exchange of Enclaves (1960)
  9. Kharak Singh v. State of U.P. (1962)
  10. Sajjan Singh v. State of Rajasthan (1965)
  11. I.C. Golaknath v. State of Punjab (1967)
  12. R.C. Cooper v. Union of India (1970)
  13. Madhav Rao Scindia v. Union of India (1971)
  14. Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala (1973)
  15. Bennett Coleman & Co. v. Union of India (1973)
  16. Indira Nehru Gandhi v. Raj Narain (1975)
  17. ADM Jabalpur v. Shivkant Shukla (1976)
  18. State of Rajasthan v. Union of India (1977)
  19. Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India (1978)
  20. Minerva Mills v. Union of India (1980)
  21. Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab (1980)
  22. Waman Rao v. Union of India (1981)
  23. S.P. Gupta v. Union of India (1981)
  24. People’s Union for Democratic Rights v. Union of India (1982)
  25. Bandhua Mukti Morcha v. Union of India (1984)
  26. Olga Tellis v. Bombay Municipal Corporation (1985)
  27. M.C. Mehta v. Union of India (Oleum Gas Leak) (1986)
  28. Sheela Barse v. State of Maharashtra (1987)
  29. Kihoto Hollohan v. Zachillhu (1992)
  30. Indra Sawhney v. Union of India (1992)
  31. Unnikrishnan v. State of Andhra Pradesh (1993)
  32. S.R. Bommai v. Union of India (1994)
  33. R. Rajagopal v. State of Tamil Nadu (1994)
  34. Vishaka v. State of Rajasthan (1997)
  35. D.K. Basu v. State of West Bengal (1997)
  36. Vineet Narain v. Union of India (1998)
  37. T.M.A. Pai Foundation v. State of Karnataka (2002)
  38. Islamic Academy v. State of Karnataka (2003)
  39. P.A. Inamdar v. State of Maharashtra (2005)
  40. Prakash Singh v. Union of India (2006)
  41. I.R. Coelho v. State of Tamil Nadu (2007)
  42. Aruna Shanbaug v. Union of India (2011)
  43. Lily Thomas v. Union of India (2013)
  44. NALSA v. Union of India (2014)
  45. Shreya Singhal v. Union of India (2015)
  46. Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association v. Union of India (2015)
  47. K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (2017)
  48. Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India (2018)
  49. Indian Young Lawyers Association v. State of Kerala (2018)
  50. Joseph Shine v. Union of India (2018)

50 Landmark IPC Cases Relevant to the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023

  1. Reg v. Govinda (1876)
  2. Virsa Singh v. State of Punjab (1958)
  3. K.M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra (1962)
  4. Nathulal v. State of M.P. (1966)
  5. State of A.P. v. Rayavarapu Punnayya (1976)
  6. Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab (1980)
  7. State of Maharashtra v. Mohd. Yakub (1980)
  8. Machhi Singh v. State of Punjab (1983)
  9. Kehar Singh v. State (Delhi Administration) (1988)
  10. Sarwan Singh Rattan Singh v. State of Punjab (1957)
  11. Willie Slaney v. State of M.P. (1955)
  12. Basdev v. State of Pepsu (1956)
  13. Om Prakash v. State of Punjab (1961)
  14. Kedar Nath Singh v. State of Bihar (1962)
  15. Tukaram v. State of Maharashtra (1979)
  16. Mithu v. State of Punjab (1983)
  17. Kartar Singh v. State of Punjab (1994)
  18. State of Punjab v. Gurmit Singh (1996)
  19. Nathuni Yadav v. State of Bihar (1998)
  20. State of M.P. v. Saleem (2005)
  21. Dalbir Singh v. State of Haryana (2000)
  22. M.C. Mehta v. Union of India (1987)
  23. Jacob Mathew v. State of Punjab (2005)
  24. Noor Aga v. State of Punjab (2008)
  25. Sangeet v. State of Haryana (2013)
  26. Mukesh v. State (NCT of Delhi) (2017)
  27. Independent Thought v. Union of India (2017)
  28. Joseph Shine v. Union of India (2018)
  29. Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India (2018)
  30. Lalita Kumari v. Govt. of U.P. (2013)
  31. Arnesh Kumar v. State of Bihar (2014)
  32. Selvi v. State of Karnataka (2010)
  33. Shatrughna Baban Meshram v. State of Maharashtra (2020 INSC 624)
  34. Ravinder Singh v. State of Haryana (1975)
  35. Palvinder Kaur v. State of Punjab (1952)
  36. Hanumant Govind Nargundkar v. State of M.P. (1952)
  37. Sharad Birdhichand Sarda v. State of Maharashtra (1984)
  38. Trimukh Maroti Kirkan v. State of Maharashtra (2006)
  39. State of U.P. v. Krishna Gopal (1988)
  40. Kali Ram v. State of H.P. (1973)
  41. Sanwat Khan v. State of Rajasthan (1956)
  42. Harjinder Singh v. Delhi Administration (1968)
  43. Mohd. Aman v. State of Rajasthan (1997)
  44. Pulicherla Nagaraju v. State of A.P. (2006)
  45. Ram Autar v. State of U.P. and Another (2021)
  46. Chhotelal v. State of M.P. (1977)
  47. Gurucharan Singh v. State of Punjab (2020)
  48. State of Rajasthan v. Kashi Ram (2006)
  49. Mohd. Arif v. Supreme Court of India (2014)
  50. Shankar Kisanrao Khade v. State of Maharashtra (2013)

50 Landmark CrPC Cases Relevant to the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023

  1. H.N. Rishbud v. State of Delhi (1955)
  2. State of Haryana v. Bhajan Lal (1992)
  3. Joginder Kumar v. State of U.P. (1994)
  4. D.K. Basu v. State of West Bengal (1997)
  5. Khatri v. State of Bihar (1981)
  6. Hussainara Khatoon v. State of Bihar (1979)
  7. Sheela Barse v. State of Maharashtra (1983)
  8. Abdul Rehman Antulay v. R.S. Nayak (1992)
  9. Lalita Kumari v. Govt. of U.P. (2013)
  10. Arnesh Kumar v. State of Bihar (2014)
  11. Siddharth v. State of U.P. (2021)
  12. Satender Kumar Antil v. CBI (2022)
  13. Sanjay Chandra v. CBI (2011)
  14. Gurbaksh Singh Sibbia v. State of Punjab (1980)
  15. Sushila Aggarwal v. State (NCT of Delhi) (2020)
  16. Uday Mohanlal Acharya v. State of Maharashtra (2001)
  17. Rakesh Kumar Paul v. State of Assam (2017)
  18. Hitendra Vishnu Thakur v. State of Maharashtra (1994)
  19. CBI v. Anupam J. Kulkarni (1992)
  20. Vinay Tyagi v. Irshad Ali (2013)
  21. T.T. Antony v. State of Kerala (2001)
  22. Nirmal Singh Kahlon v. State of Punjab (2009)
  23. Sakiri Vasu v. State of U.P. (2008)
  24. State of Bihar v. J.A.C. Saldanha (1980)
  25. Common Cause v. Union of India (1996)
  26. Zahira Habibullah Sheikh v. State of Gujarat (2004)
  27. P. Ramachandra Rao v. State of Karnataka (2002)
  28. K. Veeraswami v. Union of India (1991)
  29. Bhaskar Industries Ltd. v. Bhiwani Denim (2001)
  30. Madhu Limaye v. State of Maharashtra (1977)
  31. Amar Nath v. State of Haryana (1977)
  32. Pepsi Foods Ltd. v. Special Judicial Magistrate (1998)
  33. Adalat Prasad v. Rooplal Jindal (2004)
  34. Subramanian Swamy v. Manmohan Singh (2012)
  35. Rupan Deol Bajaj v. K.P.S. Gill (1995)
  36. Mohan Lal v. State of Punjab (2018)
  37. Pooja Pal v. Union of India (2016)
  38. State of Punjab v. Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar (2011)
  39. Bhagwant Singh v. Commissioner of Police (1985) 2 SCC 537
  40. Paramjit Singh v. State of Punjab (1999)
  41. K.K. Patel v. State of Gujarat (2000)
  42. Dilawar Singh v. State of Delhi (2007)
  43. Asian Resurfacing v. CBI (2018)
  44. Hardeep Singh v. State of Punjab (2014)
  45. Dharam Pal v. State of Haryana (2014)
  46. Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India (1978)
  47. Pankaj Kumar v. State of Maharashtra (2008)
  48. S.N. Sharma v. Bipen Kumar Tiwari (1970)
  49. Devender Kumar v. State of Haryana (2010)
  50. State of Karnataka v. L. Muniswamy (1977)

50 Landmark Indian Evidence Act Cases Relevant to the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA), 2023

  1. Pakala Narayana Swami v. Emperor (1939)
  2. Hanumant Govind Nargundkar v. State of M.P. (1952)
  3. Palvinder Kaur v. State of Punjab (1952)
  4. Sarwan Singh Rattan Singh v. State of Punjab (1957)
  5. Sharad Birdhichand Sarda v. State of Maharashtra (1984)
  6. State of U.P. v. Krishna Gopal (1988)
  7. Kali Ram v. State of H.P. (1973)
  8. Tomaso Bruno v. State of U.P. (2015)
  9. Selvi v. State of Karnataka (2010)
  10. Nandini Satpathy v. P.L. Dani (1978)
  11. State of Rajasthan v. Kashi Ram (2006)
  12. Trimukh Maroti Kirkan v. State of Maharashtra (2006)
  13. Anvar P.V. v. P.K. Basheer (2014)
  14. Arjun Panditrao Khotkar v. Kailash Kushanrao Gorantyal (2020)
  15. Sonu v. State of Haryana (2017)
  16. Ram Singh v. Col. Ram Singh (1985)
  17. Yusufalli Esmail Nagree v. State of Maharashtra (1968)
  18. R.M. Malkani v. State of Maharashtra (1973)
  19. Mohan Lal Shamji Soni v. Union of India (1991)
  20. State of Maharashtra v. Sukhdev Singh (1992)
  21. Bodhraj v. State of J&K (2002)
  22. Ramreddy Rajesh Khanna Reddy v. State of A.P. (2006)
  23. Ram Chandra v. State of U.P. (1957)
  24. Khatri v. State of Bihar (1981)
  25. State of Punjab v. Gurmit Singh (1996)
  26. Rameshwar v. State of Rajasthan (1952)
  27. Moti Singh v. State of U.P. (1964)
  28. Magan Bihari Lal v. State of Punjab (1977)
  29. State of Maharashtra v. Damu (2000)
  30. Gura Singh v. State of Rajasthan (2001)
  31. Sanwat Khan v. State of Rajasthan (1956)
  32. Sunder Singh v. State of U.P. (1956)
  33. Earabhadrappa v. State of Karnataka (1983)
  34. State of Rajasthan v. Raja Ram (2003)
  35. Noor Aga v. State of Punjab (2008)
  36. M.G. Agarwal v. State of Maharashtra (1962)
  37. Kansa Behera v. State of Orissa (1987)
  38. Bhoginbhai Hirjibhai v. State of Gujarat (1983)
  39. Laxmibai v. Bhagwantbuva (2013)
  40. State of H.P. v. Rajiv Jassi (2016)
  41. Pattu Rajan v. State of Tamil Nadu (2019)
  42. Mukesh v. State (NCT of Delhi) (2017)
  43. M. Siddiq v. Mahant Suresh Das (2019)
  44. V.C. Shukla v. State (1980)
  45. State of Bihar v. Radha Krishna Singh (1983)
  46. Tukaram v. State of Maharashtra (1979)
  47. Dhanaj Singh v. State of Punjab (2004)
  48. Sita Ram Bhau Patil v. Ramchandra Nago Patil (1977)
  49. Ratan Gond v. State of Bihar (1959)
  50. Bhagwan Singh v. State of M.P. (2002)

Disclaimer: The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS), Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS), and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (BSA) are recent enactments replacing the IPC, CrPC, and Indian Evidence Act respectively. Since extensive judicial interpretation under the new laws is still evolving, this compilation includes landmark judgments delivered under the corresponding repealed statutes that continue to hold persuasive and precedential value wherever the legal principles remain applicable.