REPORTABLE

2026 INSC 7

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CIVIL APPEAL NO. 40 OF 2026

(@ SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NO. 24570 OF 2024)

NIRBHAY SINGH SULIYA …APPELLANT(S)

VERSUS

STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH

& ANR. …RESPONDENT(S)

J U D G M E N T

K.V. Viswanathan, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. This case highlights the unfortunate plight of a judicial officer (appellant herein) who, after 27 years of unblemished service, was removed from service. The sole and exclusive basis on which the appellant has been removed are four judicial orders by which he enlarged certain parties thereon

Signature Not Verified

CHANDRESH

Date: 2026.01.05

Reason:on bail. Those four orders were contrasted with fourteen other

orders of bail and after finding that in the four orders Section 59-A of the Madhya Pradesh Excise Act, 1915 (for short the “Excise Act”) was not referred to, action has been taken. According to the High Court, in the fourteen other orders the appellant referred to the said Section implying thereby that he was conscious of the existence of the said Section on the statute. Section 59-A prescribes what has now famously come to be known as “twin conditions” for grant of bail.

3. The question b