REPORTABLE & UNREPORTABLE Judgment

Querist :
Anonymous
(Querist) 08 July 2011
This query is : Resolved
REPORTABLE & UNREPORTABLE Judgment WHY ?
REPORTABLE
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
Some of the Apex Court Judgment.
Before the judgment they write REPORTABLE So if the write UNREPORTABLE than the judgment canno’t be a binding precedent or what? Why they write REPORTABLE or UNREPORTABLE.
What happens to UNREPORTABLE Judgment's
OR
REPORTABLE Judgment are signed by the judge & UNREPORTABLE Judgment are not signed by the judgment.
OR
On the request of the party the judgments are REPORTABLE & UNREPORTABLE. Do the party has the right to tell the judge that a particular judgment should be reported or not to be reported.
Basically why we write REPORTABLE ?
Punch witnesses means ?