CURRENT LEGAL

KNOWLEDGE FOR
DELHI JUDICIAL SERVICES
PRELIMINARY
EXAMINATIONS

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1.Static Legal General Knowledge – India

2.Static Legal General Knowledge – Delhi
3.Recent Judgments – Supreme Court
and Delhi High Court
4.Statutes and Legislations in News
5.Amendments and Appointments
6.National and International Legal
Current Affairs
 Static Legal General Knowledge – India

1. Famous Dissenting Judges:-

-Justice AK Sarkar - 49 Dissenting Judgments

-Justice Subba Rao - 48 Dissenting Judgments

2. Famous Dissenting Opinions:-

- Justice Khanna - ADM Jabalpur Case

- Justice Fazl Ali - A.K. Gopalan v. State of Madras, Romesh Thaper v. State
of Madras and Brij Bhusan v. State of Delhi
- Justice Subba Rao - New Maneck Spinning v. The Textile Labour
- Justice PN Bhagwati - Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab
- Justice A.M. Ahmadi & Justice M. M. Punchhi - Supreme Court
Advocates on Record Association v. Union of India, AIR 1994
- Justice Dalveer Bhandari - Ashok Kumar Thakur v. Union of India
- Justice Indu Malhotra - Sabarimala Verdict
- Justice Khehar - Triple Talaq Verdict
 Static Legal General Knowledge – India
3. Total Articles in Constitution of India - 395
4. Total Types of Fundamental Rights - 6
5. Total Fundamental Duties U/A 51A - 11
6. First Attorney General of India - MC Setalvad
7. First Solicitor General of India - CK Dhaptary
8. First President of the National Consumer Disputes
Redressal Commission (NCDRC) - Justice V.Balakrishna Eradi
9. First Election Commissioner of India - Mr. Sukumar Sen
10. Largest bench of the Supreme Court ever constituted - 13 Judges
(KB Case)
11. Constitution Bench - 5 or more Justices
12. Division Bench - 2 or 3 Judges
13. Justice Chandrachud - Justice Khanna - Justice Gavai - Justice Surya Kant
- Justice Vikram Nath - Justice BV Nagarathna (57) (36 days)
14. Supreme Court is open to the general public on - Saturday
15. First chairman of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) -
Justice Ranganath Mishra
 Static Legal General Knowledge – India
16. First Chairman of NGT - Justice Lokeshwar Singh Panta
17. First Chairperson of National Commission for Women - Mrs.
Jayanti Patnaik
18. Lok Adalats given statutory status by – Legal Services
Authorities Act, 1987
19. First Lok Adalat Camp – Gujarat - 1982
20. India's first International Arbitration and Mediation Centre
– Hyderabad
 Static General Knowledge – Delhi
1. Current CJ of Delhi High Court – Justice Manmohan
2. Delhi HC Established – 31st October 1966 by the Delhi HC Act, 1966
3. Initially Lahore HC exercised power over Delhi and Punjab Province
4. Total Sanctioned Strength – 45 Permanent Judges and 15 Additional
Judges
5. Subordinate Courts to Delhi HC are operating in – 9 Judicial Districts
6. Delhi HC exercised jurisdiction over Himachal Pradesh with its bench
at Shimla in a building called Ravenswood until State of HP Act, 1970
was passed
7. Delhi HC was Established with 4 Judges – Justice KS Hegde was the
first CJ
8. Delhi International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) – estd. in 2009 - first
ever High Court annexed Institutional Arbitration Centre
9. Delhi High Court Mediation and Conciliation Centre – Samadhan – estd.
in 2006 – joint initiative of Bar and Bench
 Recent Landmark Judgments – 2022

1. Budhadev Karmaskar v. State of West Bengal, 2022

2. Janhit Abhiyan v. Union of India, 2022
3. S.G. Vombatkere v. Union of India, 2022
4. State of Jharkhand v. Shailendra Kumar Rai, 2022
5. X v. Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, Govt
of NCT Delhi, 2022

Recent Landmark Judgments - 2023

1. Vivek Narayan Sharma v. Union Of India, 2023

2. Kaushal Kishor v. State of UP, 2023
3. Rohan Dhungat vs State of Goa and Ors, 2023
4. Anoop Baranwal vs Union of India, 2023
5. USS Alliance vs State of Uttar Pradesh, 2023
 Budhadev Karmaskar v. State of West Bengal, 2022
Bench - Justices L. Nageswara Rao, B.R. Gavai, and A.S. Bopanna

Guidelines :-

1. Recognising sex work as a profession.

2. Court also directed UIDAI to issue Adhar Cards to the Sex Workers based on a
proforma certificate
• If there is any raid on any brothel, the sex workers concerned should not be arrested, penalized,
harassed, or victimized.
•Police should treat all sex workers with dignity and not abuse them verbally and
physically, subject them to violence, or coerce them into any sexual activity.
•The Press Council of India should issue appropriate guidelines so that the identities of
sex workers during arrest, raid, and rescue operations shall not be published or telecasted.
•Measures that sex workers employ for their health and safety (e.g., use of condoms, etc.)must
neither be construed as offenses nor seen as evidence of the commission of an offense.
•Both Governments shall carry out workshops to educate sex workers about their rights.
 Janhit Abhiyan v. Union of India, 2022

Bench - Chief Justice UU Lalit and Justices Dinesh Maheshwari, S

Ravindra Bhat, Bela M Trivedi and JB Pardiwala.
Guidelines :-

Guideline:-

With a 3:2 ratio, the Supreme Court held that the 103rd Amendment and EWS
Reservations are constitutionally valid. Justices Maheshwari, Trivedi and
Pardiwala wrote separate concurring opinions for the majority. Justice Bhat wrote
a dissent on behalf of himself and Chief Justice U.U. Lalit.
 S.G. Vombatkere v. Union of India, 2022

Bench - Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justices Surya Kant and Hima
Kohli

Guidelines :-

• State and Central Governments should refrain from registering any FIR under section
124A of the IPC.
•Investing agency should not continue any investigation or take any coercive measures
by invoking Section 124A of IPC while the aforesaid provision of law is under
consideration.
•If any fresh case is registered under Section 124A of IPC, the affected parties are
at liberty to approach the concerned Courts for appropriate relief.
•All pending trials, appeals, and proceedings with respect to the charge framed
under Section 124A of IPC be kept in abeyance.
 State of Jharkhand v. Shailendra Kumar Rai, 2022
Bench- Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli

Guidelines :-

• Prohibiting the "Two-Finger Test" in rape cases

• “The two finger test has no scientific basis. It instead re-victimizes and
re- traumatizes women.”
X v. Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare,
Govt of NCT Delhi, 2022
Bench- Justices DY Chandrachud, Surya Kant, and AS Bopanna

Guidelines :-

• The Court held that “all women are entitled to safe and legal Abortion, and
there is no rationale in excluding unmarried women from the ambit of
Rule 3B of MTP Rules, which mentions the categories of women who can
seek abortion of pregnancy in the term 20-24 weeks.”

• The Court also ruled that rape includes ‘marital rape’ for the purpose
of MTP Rules.
 Vivek Narayan Sharma v. Union Of India, 2023

Bench - Justices S Abdul Nazeer, BR Gavai, AS Bopanna, V

Ramasubramanian and BV Nagarathna

Guidelines:

Bench upheld by 4:1 majority the decision taken by the Union

Government six years ago to demonetize the currency notes of Rs.
500 and Rs.1000 denominations.

Justice BV Nagarathna in her dissenting view held that though

demonetization was well-intentioned and well thought of, it
has to be declared unlawful on legal grounds (and not on the
basis of objects).
 Kaushal Kishor v. State of UP, 2023
Bench - Justice S. Abdul Nazeer, Justice B.R. Gavai, Justice A.S.
Bopanna, Justice V. Ramasubramanian and Justice B.V. Nagarathna

Guidelines:

• Additional restrictions, not found in Article 19(2), cannot be

imposed on the exercise of right to free speech under Article
19(1)(a) of Ministers, MPs and MLAs. It held that the
grounds mentioned in Article 19(2) for restricting free speech
are exhaustive.
• statements made by Minister, even if traceable to any affairs of
state or protecting the govt, cannot be attributed vicariously to
the govt even applying the principle of collective responsibility.
 Rohan Dhungat vs State of Goa and Ors, 2023

Bench - Justice MR Shah and Justice CT Ravikumar

Guidelines:

• Parole period has to be excluded from the period of

sentence
• If the parole period is included as part of the sentence
period, then any prisoner who is influential enough may
get parole several times.
 Anoop Baranwal vs Union of India, 2023

Bench - CJI D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha

Guidelines:

• States Have Power To Constitute Committees On Uniform

Civil Code
• Supreme Court bench refused to entertain a public interest
litigation (PIL) challenging the decision of States of
Uttarakhand and Gujarat to constitute committees to
introduce and implement Uniform Civil Code (UCC)
 USS Alliance vs State of Uttar Pradesh,
2023

Bench - Justices Sanjiv Khanna and MM Sundresh

Guidelines:

The starting point for the limitation under Section

34(3) Arbitration and Conciliation Act, in case of suo
moto correction of the award, would be the date on
which the correction was made and the corrected
award is received by the party.
 Current Legal Knowledge

1. Chief Justice of India – Justice DY Chandrachud – 50th

CJI – ASG for UOI in 1998 – Bombay HC – Allahabad
HC – Supreme Court

2. Chairperson of NGT - Justice Prakash Shrivastava

3. President of National Consumer Dispute Redressal
Commission (NCDRC) – Justice Amreshwar Pratap Sahi
4. Chairman of BCI – Mr. Manan Kumar Mishra
5. Patron in Chief of NALSA – CJI
6. Executive Chairman of NALSA – Justice Sanjay Kishan
Kaul
7. Chairman of Bar Council of Delhi – Mr. KK Manan
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