63 judgments
AIBE 22 important judgments
You may carry bare acts into AIBE. You may not carry case law. Every other part of the paper can be looked up under pressure — this part cannot, which makes it the highest-value thing to actually memorise.
A sample
| Case | Year | Holding |
|---|---|---|
| Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala | 1973 | Parliament's power to amend under Article 368 does not extend to altering the basic structure of… |
| Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India | 1978 | 'Procedure established by law' under Article 21 must be fair, just and reasonable. Articles 14, … |
| K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India | 2017 | Nine-judge bench held privacy to be a fundamental right intrinsic to life and personal liberty.… |
| S.R. Bommai v. Union of India | 1994 | A proclamation under Article 356 is subject to judicial review; the floor of the House is the te… |
| Minerva Mills v. Union of India | 1980 | Limited amending power and the balance between Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles are p… |
| Indra Sawhney v. Union of India | 1992 | Reservation capped at 50 per cent; creamy layer excluded; no reservation in promotions (later al… |
| Golaknath v. State of Punjab | 1967 | Held Parliament could not abridge Fundamental Rights; overruled in Kesavananda Bharati.… |
| A.K. Gopalan v. State of Madras | 1950 | Read Articles 19, 21 and 22 as mutually exclusive; effectively overruled by Maneka Gandhi.… |
| ADM Jabalpur v. Shivkant Shukla | 1976 | Held Article 21 suspended during emergency. Expressly overruled in Puttaswamy; the 44th Amendmen… |
| Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India | 2018 | Read down Section 377 IPC insofar as it criminalised consensual adult same-sex conduct.… |
| Joseph Shine v. Union of India | 2018 | Struck down Section 497 IPC (adultery) as unconstitutional. No equivalent exists in the BNS.… |
| Shreya Singhal v. Union of India | 2015 | Struck down Section 66A of the IT Act for vagueness and overbreadth; read down Section 79(3)(b).… |
How to learn them
One line each, attached to a provision. Not the facts, not the bench, not the paragraph number — the proposition and the section it governs. That is the form the question takes.