MODEL NOTES FOR JUDICIAL EXAM - 16

1. The 11th Fundamental Duty was incorporated by the 86th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2002. True/False

    Ans: True

2. Right to property cease to be fundamental right from which year?
     Ans: 1978

3. Which of the following reasons were cited by the Ashok Mehta Committee for the decline of the Panchayati Raj Institutions in India ?
     A. Role of Bureaucracy
     B. Lack of Political Will
     C. Lack of conceptual clarity
     D. All of the above

4. Which of the following are provided in India by the Right to Education Act ?
   A. Right of children to free and compulsory education till completion of elementary education in a neighbourhood school
  B. Prohibition of deployment of teachers for non-educational works, other than decennial census, elections to local authority like State Legislatures, Parliament, and disaster relief
      C. Both

5. The Special Provisions in Article 371G of the Constitution of India relate to the State of :
    A. Jammu & Kashmir
    B. Jharkhand
    C. Mizoram

6. The National Human Rights Commission has :
  A. one Member who is or has been a Judge of Supreme Court
  B. one Member who is, or has been the Chief Justice of a High Court
 C. two Members to be appointed from amongst persons having knowledge of or practical experience in matters relating to human rights
   D. All of the above

7. A holds Z down and fraudulently takes Z’s money and jewels from Z’s clothes without Z’s consent. What offence did A commit?
    Ans: Robbery

8. A person shall be bound to answer truly all questions relating to a case put to him by a police officer making an investigation, or any police officer not below such rank as the State Government may, by general or special order, other than questions the answers to which would have a tendency to expose him to a criminal charge or to a penalty or forfeiture.Which section of CrPC, 1973 provides for the same?
     Ans: Sec. 161

9. Which one of the following is not a 'Public Servant'?
     A. secretary of a co-operative society
     B. liquidator

10. What are the principles laid down in the case of Hanumant vs State of MP [1953] SCR 1091] regarding establishing a case against an accused vesting on circumstantial evidence? 
Ans: The principles which constitute the panchsheel of the proof of a case based on circumstantial evidence are as follows: 

• The circumstances from which the conclusion of guilt is to be drawn should be fully established;
• The facts so established should be consistent with the hypothesis of guilt and the accused,they should not be explainable on any other hypothesis except that the accused is guilty;
• The circumstances should be of a conclusive nature and tendency;
• They should exclude every possible hypothesis except the one to be proved; and
• There must be a chain of evidence so complete as to show that in all human probability the act must have been done by the accused.