Right to freedom MCQs with Answers

In Vihaan Kumar v. State of Haryana (7 February 2025), the Supreme Court held an arrest illegal for failure to communicate its grounds under Article 22(1). What did its operative order say about the pending prosecution?

Which constitutional provision contains the requirement to produce an arrested and detained person before the nearest Magistrate within twenty-four hours, excluding necessary journey time, subject to the constitutional exceptions?

Which listed stages are covered by the Article 21 right to speedy criminal proceedings?

When a Court scrutinises whether criminal-process detention unlawfully deprives a person of liberty, which protective judicial role is most directly illustrated?

Which Supreme Court judgment delivered in 2018 prescribed preventive, remedial and punitive measures against mob lynching and mob violence?

Which Supreme Court judgment dated 17 July 2018 prescribed preventive, remedial and punitive measures against mob violence and lynching?

Which action would violate the protection against retrospective criminalisation in Article 20(1) of the Constitution of India?

Which Supreme Court decision of 21 March 1996 held that the Article 21 right to live with human dignity did not include a right to terminate natural life before the natural process of certain death had begun?

Which Supreme Court judgment of 27 March 2018 laid down preventive, remedial and punitive measures against honour crimes?

Which landmark Constitution Bench judgment of the Supreme Court held that criminalising consensual sexual acts between competent adults in private violates Articles 14, 15, 19, and 21 of the Constitution of India—a constitutional ruling reflected in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, which omits any penal provision criminalising consensual adult same-sex intimacy?