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GS-2FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS - PROPORTIONALITY DOCTRINE

A Rule Meant to Save Lives From Spurious Liquor Was Struck Down for Failing to Prevent Exactly That

A Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran applied the four-pronged proportionality test from K.S. Puttaswamy (2017) and found that while preventing spurious-liquor deaths is a legitimate state aim, mandatory denaturing did nothing to stop diversion into the illicit liquor trade while crippling legitimate industrial users in paints, resins and pharmaceuticals.

Sub TopicSUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN MAHARASHTRA'S METHANOL…SourceSUPREME COURT OF INDIA, THE…
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GS-2ELECTORAL REFORMS - SPECIAL INTENSIVE REVISION GOVERNANCE

What Makes One Electoral Roll Revision Clean and Another One a Crisis?

Odisha's Chief Electoral Officer R.S. Gopalan released the final roll on Monday, showing 93.97% of enumeration forms were returned and just 24,070 electors were found ineligible after formal hearings - a strikingly small, largely undisputed correction compared to the mass-exclusion controversies reported elsewhere during this SIR cycle.

Sub TopicODISHA'S CLEAN SIR OUTCOME AS A GOVERNANCE BENCHMARKSourceCHIEF ELECTORAL OFFICER ODISHA…
UPSC Relevance8/10
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GS-2INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - UN REFORM AND MIDDLE-POWER DIPLOMACY

Four Middle Powers Just Launched a UN-Reform Coalition. India Wasn't in the Room.

P4M's founders - European Council President António Costa, Brazil's Lula da Silva, Kenya's William Ruto and Canada's Mark Carney - published a joint Financial Times editorial calling for a more representative UN, days ahead of the UNGA's High-Level debate that Jaishankar is attending. The initiative arrives as UN Secretary-General António Guterres has publicly said "superpowers are discovering their limits."

Sub TopicPARTNERS FOR MULTILATERALISM (P4M) AND INDIA'S ABSENCE…SourceTHE HINDU, EUROPEAN COUNCIL, EU…
UPSC Relevance8/10
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GS-2FEDERALISM - SPECIAL CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS (ARTICLE 371…

Every 371 Clause Was Written for a State. Ladakh Wants One Without Becoming Either.

Every existing 371 provision - from Nagaland's 371A to Karnataka's 371J - was written either for a full state or a Union Territory that already has a legislature. Article 371K would be the first 371-series provision written for a UT that has no Assembly at all, testing how far asymmetric federalism can stretch without full statehood.

Sub TopicPROPOSED ARTICLE 371K AND ASYMMETRIC FEDERALISM FOR LADAKHSourceINDIAN EXPRESS, BYJU'S, GK…
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-2FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS - ARREST SAFEGUARDS (ARTICLE 22)

One Week Is All a Magistrate Now Gets to Decide If Police Get a Second Chance to Arrest You

The Bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Atul S. Chandurkar delivered the ruling in Jaskaran Jeet Singh Deol v. State of Punjab, a case where the accused was released after not being given grounds of arrest, then faced a police attempt to re-arrest him. The judgment builds on a line of cases since Pankaj Bansal (2023) making written grounds of arrest a mandatory, exception-free constitutional requirement across all offences.

Sub TopicRE-ARREST GUIDELINES AND ARTICLE 22(1) ENFORCEMENTSourceSUPREME COURT OF INDIA, THE…
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-2CONSTITUTIONAL BODIES - PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION INTEGRITY

A Body Built to Guarantee Equality of Opportunity Became the Place That Denied It

Justice M. Nagaprasanna ordered the SIT, headed by DGP Alok Kumar, after finding evidence of marks withheld, tampered answer sheets, manipulated interview panels and leaked question papers under suspended KPSC chairman Shivashankarappa S. Sahukar. The SIT must complete its probe in 100 days with progress reports every 30 days and the Enforcement Directorate has separately registered a money-laundering case.

Sub TopicKPSC RECRUITMENT SCAM AND JUDICIAL OVERSIGHT OF PUBLIC…SourceHIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA, THE…
UPSC Relevance8/10
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