Indian Polity Mixed Quiz: Set 103

Some Fundamental Rights are given only to citizens of India, while others are available to every person on Indian soil, including foreigners.

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.

Article 46 asks the State to promote with special care the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections, in particular the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

The committee headed by Justice B. P. Jeevan Reddy, appointed in 2004 to review AFSPA, reported in 2005 that the Act should be repealed and that the powers genuinely needed should instead be written into the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

This statement is incorrect because the Constitution places no bar on re-electing a Vice-President; he may be elected any number of times.

Ahmed Khan v. Shah Bano Begum. In this 1985 judgment the Supreme Court allowed a divorced Muslim woman maintenance under Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code, a secular provision open to women of every faith, and the Court remarked that Article 44 had remained a dead letter.

A bicameral state legislature has two Houses: the Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) and the Legislative Council (Vidhan Parishad). Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh all have a Legislative Council, along with Maharashtra and Karnataka.

Article 105 of the Constitution deals with the powers, privileges and immunities of Parliament, its members and its committees.

This statement is incorrect because a Constitution Amendment Bill must be passed by each House of Parliament separately by the special majority, and Article 108 joint sittings do not apply to it.

In the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the punishment for murder, which was Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, is now Section 103, and it prescribes death or imprisonment for life, and also a fine.

Statement 1 restates Article 76, and statement 2 correctly describes the Solicitor General's place below the Attorney General. Article 76 of the Constitution creates the office of the Attorney General, the highest law officer of the Union.

Article 370(1)(c) said that Article 1, which declares India a Union of States and lists its territory in the First Schedule, and Article 370 itself applied to the State; everything else could reach it only through a presidential order made with the concurrence of the State government.

This statement is incorrect because the Speaker resigns by writing to the Deputy Speaker, not to the President.

The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024, introduced in the Lok Sabha on 17 December 2024, proposes a new Article 82A under which the President notifies an appointed date on the first sitting of the Lok Sabha after a general election, and the term of every assembly constituted…

This is the incorrect statement, because the Rajya Sabha does discuss a Money Bill. Under Article 109, a Money Bill is introduced only in the Lok Sabha and, after it is passed, it is sent to the Rajya Sabha.

The correct answer is C, Article 222, which empowers the President to transfer a judge from one High Court to any other High Court after consultation with the Chief Justice of India; by the collegium practice laid down in the Third Judges Case, the Chief Justice forms that opinion with…

The Tenth Schedule, known as the anti-defection law, sets out when a member of Parliament or a state legislature loses the seat for defection.

Article 323A, added by the 42nd Amendment in 1976, lets Parliament by law set up administrative tribunals for the Union and for each state or group of states to decide disputes on recruitment and service conditions of public servants.

The Election Commission of India sorts political parties into three categories under the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968: National Parties, State Parties (recognised in particular states) and Registered Unrecognised Parties.

Zonal Councils are statutory bodies set up under the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, to promote cooperation among neighbouring states. There are five: Northern, Central, Eastern, Western and Southern.