Haryana Judiciary — Previous-Year Papers

Every Haryana Judiciary paper we have, free to read and download. 6 prelims and 5 mains papers — each one also available as a clean, branded PDF.

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Haryana Judiciary · Prelims

What the Haryana prelims actually tests

One 125-question objective screen (each worth 0.1 mark, 12.5 total, 2 hours) — qualifying only, so its marks never reach the final merit list, but you must clear the cut-off in a ~1:10 filter to reach the Mains. It carries the steepest negative marking on the site: −0.8 per wrong answer. Built on 750 questions across six papers (2011-2021); bars show share of the whole paper and the line tracks each subject over those years. Per-subject counts are best-effort classification — read the shares as approximate.

Code of Civil Procedure 13.5%

The single heaviest subject — ~17 questions a year, spiking to 25 in 2011 and otherwise settled at 14-19. Decree vs order, res judicata, execution, appeals & revision, injunctions, pleadings. Top priority.

Indian Penal Code 12.9%

A close second — very high in 2011 (27), then steady at 12-17. General Exceptions, offences against the body, property offences, abetment & criminal conspiracy recur. Top-tier alongside CPC.

Indian Evidence Act 11.7%

Core but swingy — 19 in 2013, only 8 in 2014, back to 17 in 2018. Admissions/confessions, dying declaration, documentary evidence, burden of proof, expert opinion. Treat the 2014 dip as an outlier.

Code of Criminal Procedure 11.3%

The most predictable subject on the paper — 12-16 every single year. Arrest, bail, cognizance, framing of charge, investigation and trial procedure are perennial. Stable, high-priority.

Constitution of India 9.9%

A substantial block, but on a clear downward drift — 16-18 in 2011/13 easing to a steady 10-11 from 2017. Fundamental Rights, writs, Union judiciary/executive, DPSP. High-yield recall.

Hindu Law 8.8%

The clear riser — just 6 in 2011, then 11-13 in every paper since. Marriage, divorce, adoption & maintenance, succession (Class I/II heirs, coparcenary). Now level with Constitution — prioritise it.

General Knowledge & Current Affairs 7.9%

Steady 9-11 a year (only 2017 dipped to 6). Science, sports, awards, geography, polity current affairs and Indian legal/constitutional history — expressly named in the notification. Do a quick current-affairs pass.

Commercial-law cluster · Contract, SRA, Partnership, Sale of Goods, Limitation, Registration 14.8%

Individually tiny (2-6 each), decisive together — ~15% of the paper and reliable every year since 2013 (Contract is the largest at ~5/yr). Near-absent in 2011, then it switched on. High return-on-effort; do not skip it.

State & minor heads · Haryana Rent + Punjab Courts + Mohammadan/Customary + maximsstate acts 9.2%

The long tail, plus ~4% unclassified scatter. The Haryana Rent Act 1973 and Punjab Courts Act 1918 are state-specific and near-guaranteed (1-2 each, almost every paper); legal maxims/torts spiked to 6 in 2018. Cheap, certain marks.

The maths punishes a wrong answer eight times over. A correct answer earns +0.1; a wrong one costs −0.8 — you forfeit eight times what you'd have won, the harshest wrong-answer penalty of any judiciary prelims here. And you can't quietly leave a doubtful question blank: an unmarked stem also costs −0.8, you must positively darken option 'E' to skip it, and leaving more than 13 questions (10%) unanswered is disqualifying. Treat this as an exercise in disciplined elimination — attempt only when you can knock the five options down to two, and mark 'E' on the rest.

It's all law plus a GK slice — and the state Acts are free marks. Unlike Delhi, the Haryana prelims has no English or aptitude block (English and Hindi are full Mains papers); ~92% of the screen is bare-Act law. The Haryana Urban (Rent & Eviction) Act 1973 and Punjab Courts Act 1918 are small but appear in almost every recent paper — cheap, near-certain marks no other syllabus carries. On substance, all six papers (latest 2021) test the IPC, CrPC and Evidence Act; future papers will test the BNS, BNSS and BSA (in force since 1 July 2024), so use these PYQs for concepts and map each section onto its new-code equivalent.