Set 100 of the Indian Polity mixed quiz has 20 multiple-choice questions from 9 different topics of the subject: List of Chief Justices of India, Article 21: Right to Life and Personal Liberty, Internal Security Laws: UAPA, AFSPA, NSA and the NIA and more. 3 of them were asked in real previous-year papers. A topic quiz checks one chapter; this set revises the whole subject at once, the way an exam paper does, where the next question can come from any chapter. Every question carries an explanation of why the correct option is right and why the others are wrong. Keep to the timer, read the explanations at the end, and go back to the notes of any topic where you slipped.
20 questions with answers and explanations
Who had the longest tenure as Chief Justice of India?
Justice Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud was Chief Justice of India from 22 February 1978 to 11 July 1985, a tenure of about seven years and four months, by far the longest any holder of the office has had.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Chief Justice of India after the Constitution came into force?
When the Federal Court of India became the Supreme Court of India on 26 January 1950, Justice H. J. Kania, who had been Chief Justice of the Federal Court, became the first Chief Justice of India.
Read the full explanation →The right to privacy was declared a fundamental right under Article 21 in which case?
The judgment also laid down that a law invading privacy must have legal backing, serve a legitimate State aim and be proportionate.
Read the full explanation →What is the maximum period for which a person may be detained under the National Security Act, 1980?
The National Security Act, 1980 permits preventive detention for a maximum of twelve months from the date of detention, though the detaining authority may order a shorter period and extend it within that ceiling.
Read the full explanation →Which Chief Justice of India had the shortest tenure in the office?
Justice Kamal Narain Singh was Chief Justice of India for only seventeen days, from 25 November to 12 December 1991, the shortest tenure in the history of the office.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following Articles deals with the improvement of public health under the Directive Principles of State Policy in the Indian Constitution?
Article 47 directs the State to regard the raising of the level of nutrition and the standard of living of its people and the improvement of public health as among its primary duties, and it adds that the State shall endeavour to bring about the prohibition of intoxicating drinks and…
Read the full explanation →The doctrine that the death sentence should be imposed only in the rarest of rare cases was laid down in which case?
A Constitution Bench upheld the death penalty as consistent with Article 21 but held that it may be awarded only in the rarest of rare cases, where the alternative of life imprisonment is unquestionably foreclosed, and that courts must weigh aggravating against mitigating circumstances.
Read the full explanation →Article 122 of the Constitution provides that:
Article 122 says that the validity of any proceedings in Parliament shall not be called in question in any court on the ground of an alleged irregularity of procedure, and that an officer or member in whom power over procedure or order is vested is not subject to the jurisdiction…
Read the full explanation →Under the Constitution, the oath of office to the President of India is administered by whom?
Article 60 lays down the form of oath for the President and provides that it is made in the presence of the Chief Justice of India, or in his absence the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court available.
Read the full explanation →In which section of the Indian Penal Code is 'mental unsoundness' contained?
Section 84 of the Indian Penal Code was the general exception for the act of a person of unsound mind: nothing is an offence which is done by a person who, at the time of doing it, by reason of unsoundness of mind is incapable of knowing the nature of…
Read the full explanation →Under Article 359, the enforcement of which pair of fundamental rights cannot be suspended during a national emergency?
Article 359 lets the President suspend the right to move any court for the enforcement of fundamental rights while a national emergency is in force, but the 44th Amendment Act, 1978, passed after the experience of the 1975 Emergency, placed Article 20, on protection against conviction for offences, and Article…
Read the full explanation →Which of the following are regarded as the main features of the "Rule of Law"?
1. Limitation of powers
2. Equality before law
3. People's responsibility to the Government
4. Liberty and civil rights
Select the correct answer using the code given below :
The Rule of Law means that power is limited by law, everyone is equal before the law, and individual liberties are protected.
Read the full explanation →A judge of the Supreme Court of India, including the Chief Justice, holds office until attaining the age of
Article 124(2) provides that a judge of the Supreme Court holds office until he attains the age of sixty-five years, and the Chief Justice of India is a judge of that Court, so the same limit applies to him.
Read the full explanation →Of the two Union Territories created by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, which one was given no legislative assembly?
The Act created the Union Territory of Ladakh without a legislature, administered by a Lieutenant Governor, and carved it out with the two districts of Leh and Kargil; its first Lieutenant Governor was Radha Krishna Mathur.
Read the full explanation →In which case did the Supreme Court hold that the right to livelihood is a part of the right to life under Article 21?
The Court held that the right to life includes the right to livelihood, because no person can live without the means of living, and that pavement and slum dwellers could not be evicted without a fair hearing.
Read the full explanation →Part XVII of the Indian Constitution contains provisions relating to which subject?
Part XVII, Articles 343 to 351, deals with language: Article 343 makes Hindi in the Devanagari script the official language of the Union, Article 344 provides for an Official Language Commission and a Committee of Parliament, Articles 345 to 347 deal with the official languages of the States, Article 348…
Read the full explanation →Article 126 of the Constitution of India deals with which of the following?
Article 126 provides that when the office of Chief Justice of India is vacant, or when the Chief Justice is by reason of absence or otherwise unable to perform the duties of the office, the duties shall be performed by such one of the other judges of the Court as…
Read the full explanation →Article 21A provides free and compulsory education to children of which age group?
Article 21A, inserted by the 86th Amendment, 2002, says that the State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years in such manner as the State may by law determine, and the Right to Education Act, 2009, works out that promise…
Read the full explanation →Which pair of Chief Justices of India were father and son?
Justice Y. V. Chandrachud was Chief Justice of India from 1978 to 1985 and his son, Justice D. Y. Chandrachud, became the fiftieth Chief Justice of India in November 2022, the only instance of a father and a son both holding the office.
Read the full explanation →Hussainara Khatoon versus State of Bihar, 1979, is associated with which right under Article 21?
The petition, India's first reported public interest litigation, brought to light thousands of undertrial prisoners in Bihar jails who had been locked up longer than the maximum sentence for their alleged offence.
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