Important Judgments for the upcoming Judicial Services Examination.

1. Arrest cannot be made in routine manner under section 498-A of IPC. (Arnesh Kumar vs. State of Bihar, Bench of Justices Chandramauli Kr. Prasad and Pinaki Chandra Ghose)                    

2. Constitution of Family Welfare Committees by DLSA in matrimonial Dispute cases  - Rajesh Sharma vs. State of UP, 

(Bench of Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Justice Uday Umesh Lalit)                     

3. Above direction pertaining to Family Welfare Committee and it's constitution by DLSA  held impermissible by a later judgment of Supreme Court - Social Action Forum for Manav Adhikar vs. Ministry of Law and Justice.

(Bench of then CJI Dipak Misra, Justices A. M. Khanwilkar and Dr. D.Y.Chandrachud).

4.  Words 'adult male'  in Section 2(q) of PWDV Act stands deleted and held Unconstitutional -  Hiral P. Harsora Vs. Kusum Narottamdas Harsora.  

(Bench Justices Kurian Joseph and R.F.Nariman).

5. Section 377 of IPC held to be partially Unconstitutional - Navtej Singh Johar vs. UoI. 

(Bench 5 Judges- Justices Dipak Misra, A. M. Khanwilkar, Indu Malhotra,  D.Y.Chandrachud, R.F.Nariman)                           

6.Section 497 IPC  held to be Unconstitutional. -  Joseph Shine Vs. UoI

( Bench - Same as above, in 377 case)                      - 

7. Exception 2 to Section 375 IPC in so far it relates to a girl child below 18 years of age struck down -  Independent Thought Vs. Union of India 

(Bench Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta)                

8.  Practice of excluding women from the temple at Sabarimala is not a essential religious practice - Indian Young Lawyers Association vs. State of Kerala

(Bench 4:1, Dissenting opinion by Justice Indu Malhotra, Concurring - Then CJI Dipak Misra, Justices A. M. KHANWILKAR, R.F.Nariman, DY chandrachud)      

 9. Practice of Triple Talaq not an essential practice to the Hanafi School of Sunni Muslims -  Shayara Bano vs. UoI

( BENCH, 3:2, Justice Kurian Joseph, Justice R.F.Nariman,Justice U. U Lalit,  Dissenting-Chief Justice JS Khehar and Justice Abdul Nazeer.)         

10. Right to Privacy recognized as fundamental right - Justice K.S.Puttaswamy vs. UoI. 

(Bench: 9 Judges, Then CJI Jagdish Singh Khehar, Justices R.K.Aggarwal, Dr. DY Chandrachud, J. Chelameswar, R.F.Nariman, Sanjay Kishan Kaul, S Abdul Nazeer, Abhay Manohar Sapre, and S. A. Bobde.

11. Aadhar scheme is backed by Aadhar Act which serves legitimate State aim - Justice K.S.Puttaswamy vs. UoI.

 (Bench 5Judges, Justice K.S Puttaswamy vs. UOI, Bench Justices CJI,Dipak Misra, A. K. Sikri,  A. M. KHANWILKAR, Dr. Dhananjay Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan)