LAW NOTES

1. In which case the Supreme Court of India held that right to access to drinking water is fundamental to life and it is the duty of the State under Act 21 to provide clean drinking water to its citizens ?

    Ans: A.P. Pollution Control Board vs M.V. Nayudu 

2.Match List-I (name of case) with List-II (name of writ) and give correct answer by using code given below:

List I

a. Sunil Batra vs Delhi Administration

b. U.N. R. Rao vs Smt. Indira Gandhi

c. Gujarat State Financial Corporation vs Lotus Hotels

d. Nalini Ranjan vs Annada Shankar

List II 

(i) Quo Warranto 

(ii) Habeas Corpus

(iii) Certiorari

(iv) Mandamus 

Codes:

         a     b        c        d

• (i)    (ii)   (iii)    (iv)
• (ii)  (i)   (iv)  (iii)

3.Match List-I with List-II and give correct answer by using code given below:

     List I

     (Provision for)

a. Punishment for causing death or resulting in persistent vegetative state of victim

b. Sexual intercourse by husband upon his wife during separation

c. Sexual intercourse by a person in authority

d. Gang Rape

List II

(Sections of I.P.C)

i. Section 376-D

ii. Section 376-B

iii. Section 376-A

iv. Section 376-C

Code:

        a         b        c         d

• iii       ii       iv       i
• ii         iii       i          iv

Some important case laws:

 1. The principle of legality

    Commonwealth v. Mochan 

    Keeler v. Superior Court 

2. Burden of proof

       Owens v. State

3. Actus reus

       Martin v. State

4. Voluntary act

      State v. Utter 

      People v. Decina

5. Omission

    People v. Beardsley 

    Barber v. Superior Court

6.  Mens rea

     Regina v. Cunningham

     People v. Conley

 7. Mistake of fact

      People v. Navarro

      Regina v. Prince