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1st PIL - Mumbai Karghar Sabha 1st famour PIL- Husainara Khatoon vs home secretary

1979 Kapila Hingorani - against UTP under trial Prisoner - illegal detention for time more than
max possible sentence. - 35K people were freed - Right to Speedy Trial (FR) - A21

9/12/1946 formed Constituent Assembly, 15/8/1949 independent - CA + Parliament, 26/1/1950,


CA adjourned. A31- compulsory acquasition of property, 1st CAA 1950- A 31 (a), 31(b), 9th
Scedule, Shakari Prasad VS UOI 1951- Law Diff from CAA- 368 > 13

Sajjan singh V's State of Rajasthan(1964)- upheld Shankari Prasad case.

Golaknath Case vs State of Punjab 1967. Reversed Sajjan Singh and Shankari parajad case - 11
judges 6:5 split decision.

A21: no person shall be deprived of his life and personal liberty without following unless by
PEBL - 25 June 1975 to 21 March 1977: Emergency- People arrested without PEBL - HC writ
Habeas Corpus -ADM Jabalpur vs Sivkan shukla (1975) - SC - fundamental rights suspended-
protection suspended - 44 CAA (1978)- A20 & 21 made illalineable except by PEBL.

Due process of Law and PEBL Maneka Gandhi VS UOI (1978)-

Theory of Punishment: Reformative and retributive - Capital punishment - 354(3) hanged till
death- Bacchan Singh VS State of Punjab (1980)- Rarest of rare

A22- Protection against arbitrary arrest, exception Preventive Detection Act-1950 - AK Gopalan
VS state of Madras (1950) Habeas Corpus (writ petition A32) - narrow view - "Due process of
Law" was not considered on PEBL.

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