SSC CPO Current Affairs Quiz: 30 September 2026

The correct answer is the Indian Coast Guard acting in coordination with the Anti-Terrorism Squad of Gujarat. The Coast Guard put its ships and aircraft on the suspected boat, tracked it and boarded it on the high seas, while the state unit carried the case into arrest and investigation. Option A names the Navy and the Narcotics Control Bureau, both plausible in a drug case at sea, but neither is the force that made this interception. Option C names the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, which handles customs and smuggling intelligence, paired with the wrong state police; the dhow and its crew were taken to Mumbai but the partner unit was from Gujarat. Option D names the Border Security Force, which guards land borders and has no role on the high seas. The pairing of a maritime force with a state anti-terrorism squad is the point of the case.

The correct answer is Rs 1,789.52 crore, the estimated cost inclusive of taxes for the project the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs cleared for implementation by Delhi Police. Options A, B and D are wrong because each alters the figure while keeping its shape, a common way of setting a distractor in an examination. The money buys a system that covers 42 identified traffic corridors, with 1,092 Adaptive Traffic Control System installations and 1,029 enforcement locations. Implementation runs in three phases over 24 months and is followed by five years of operation and maintenance, each phase beginning only after the earlier one has been judged against prescribed testing, commissioning, acceptance and performance parameters. Delhi Police will carry out the work through a Master System Integrator selected by competitive bidding.

The correct answer is Budgam. The encounter took place at Gurwatkalan, which falls in the area of the Khansahib police station in Budgam district. Options A, C and D name other districts of the union territory and are wrong, though each has seen counter-terrorism operations at other times, which is exactly why they make plausible distractors. Security forces had been pursuing Musa for a long stretch, and a plan involving every stakeholder was put together once technical and human intelligence reached them about where he was and how he was moving. The encounter was not a standalone action but part of a long-sustained effort named Operation Sheruwali, which had begun in May 2026 and was still running when Musa was neutralised.

The correct answer is about 526 kg of high-grade narcotics, valued at more than Rs 3,000 crore. The consignment included heroin and methamphetamine, which is why the value per kilogram is so high. Option A keeps the correct value but scrambles the digits of the weight, a common trap where 526 becomes 256; the two numbers use the same digits in a different order. Option C keeps the correct weight but cuts the value by a factor of ten, turning thousands of crore into hundreds. Option D inflates both figures. The safe way to hold this is to remember the pair together, the weight in kilograms and the value in crore, because a question usually alters only one of the two and leaves the other correct to make the wrong option look familiar.

The correct answer is 42. The project takes in that many identified traffic corridors of the capital. Option A, 24, is wrong because it is the number of months over which the three phases of implementation are spread, not a count of corridors. Option C, 71, is wrong because it belongs to a different fact altogether: Delhi has about 71 lakh active registered vehicles, and it is this growth in vehicles, far ahead of the growth in road space, that the system is meant to cope with. Option D is wrong because no such figure is attached to the approval. Within those corridors the system will set up 1,092 Adaptive Traffic Control System installations and 1,029 enforcement locations, and traffic regulation, enforcement and information will be brought onto a single platform through Traffic Command and Control Centres.

The correct answer is Operation Sheruwali, a long-sustained operation that began in May 2026 and of which this encounter was a part. Option A, Operation Mahadev, is wrong because that was the operation in which another commander of the same group, Suleman, was neutralised on 28 July 2025. Option B, Operation Asdhar, is wrong for a similar reason: Yasir was neutralised in it on 4 September 2026. Option D is wrong because no such name belongs to this sequence. Keeping the three names tied to the right commanders is the trick with this question, and the fourth member of the group, Junaid Bhat, was neutralised at Dachigam on 3 December 2024. Together these four had been active in the union territory since 2022.

The correct answer is an Iranian dhow operated by five Pakistani nationals. The boat was tracked on intelligence, intercepted and boarded on the high seas, and then escorted under armed security to Mumbai along with its crew and the seized drugs. Option C is the sharpest trap, because it simply swaps the two nationalities: the vessel was Iranian and the men on board were Pakistani, not the other way round. Option A changes both the type of boat and the nationality of the crew; a trawler is a fishing vessel and no Indian nationals were reported among those arrested. Option D describes a container ship with a crew of twelve, which does not match a dhow, the small wooden-hulled craft traditionally used in the Arabian Sea and the type most often found on this smuggling route.

The correct answer is C-DAC. It will provide technical support as Project Management Consultant, which covers technical scrutiny, monitoring, validation and acceptance both while the system is being installed and later during operation and maintenance. Options B, C and D name other well-known public technical bodies and are wrong, because none of them was given this role in the approval. The distinction worth holding on to is between the two agencies in the project: Delhi Police is the implementing force and will get the work done through a Master System Integrator selected by competitive bidding, while C-DAC sits alongside as the consultant that checks the technology. The system itself is to follow open standards and application programming interfaces so that it can be integrated and scaled up later.

The correct answer is four. With Musa gone, the entire group of four senior commanders of the outfit who had been operating in the union territory since 2022 has been neutralised. Option A is wrong and option B is the likelier trap, since three of the four had already been neutralised before this encounter, in separate actions against Junaid Bhat, Suleman and Yasir; Musa was the fourth and last. Option D is wrong because no such number is attached to this group. The group was held responsible for a series of attacks over four years, among them the Kandi attack of May 2023, the Halan attack of August 2023, the DKG attack of December 2023, the Shahsitar attack of May 2024, the Shiv Khori attack of June 2024 and the Baisaran attack of April 2025.

The correct answer is 1,092. That is the number of Adaptive Traffic Control System installations the project will put in place. Option A, 1,029, is the trap in this question: it is the number of enforcement locations, a closely similar figure in the same approval, and the two are easily swapped. Options C and D are wrong because neither number belongs to the project. Adaptive control is the heart of the scheme: instead of fixed timings, signals adjust to the traffic of the moment and are coordinated along a corridor, which cuts avoidable stoppages and delays. The enforcement locations do separate work, catching red-light and stop-line offences, speeding, wrong-way driving, helmet and seat-belt violations, illegal parking and mobile phone use at the wheel.

The correct answer is Junaid Bhat, who was neutralised at Dachigam on 3 December 2024, the first of the four commanders of this group to be accounted for. Option B, Suleman, is wrong because he was neutralised on 28 July 2025 in Operation Mahadev. Option C, Yasir, is wrong because he was neutralised on 4 September 2026 in Operation Asdhar. Option D is wrong because Asif Fauji is another name for Musa himself, the commander neutralised at Gurwatkalan in Budgam district, and the question asks about a different member of the group. The Ministry of Home Affairs credited these results to counter-terrorism work carried out in close coordination by the Jammu and Kashmir Police, the Indian Army and the Central Armed Police Forces.