Indian Polity Mixed Quiz: Set 104

Citizenship is dealt with in Part II of the Constitution (Articles 5 to 11), not among the Fundamental Rights in Part III.

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.

Article 55(3) of the Constitution says the President is elected in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote, and the voting is by secret ballot.

The Prevention of Terrorism Act was enacted in 2002 and repealed in 2004, and the amendment of the UAPA made in the same year carried its definitions of terrorist act and terrorist organisation into that older Act, which is why the UAPA is today the principal anti-terror law.

The Estimates Committee is drawn entirely from the Lok Sabha, while the other two financial committees include members of the Rajya Sabha.

It provides a civil form of marriage open to all Indian citizens irrespective of religion, with registration before a marriage officer after a notice period, and succession in such marriages is governed by the Indian Succession Act rather than any religious law.

That section barred a detained person from disclosing in court the grounds of his detention or the representation he had made against it.

Freedom from arrest in civil cases runs through the continuance of a session and for forty days before the session begins and forty days after it ends.

The six freedoms of Article 19(1) are not absolute, because clauses (2) to (6) let the State place reasonable restrictions on them.

Section 4 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita lists the punishments to which offenders are liable, and community service appears in that list for the first time in Indian criminal law.

This is part of the very definition of a parliamentary committee: it is appointed or elected by the House or nominated by the presiding officer, works under the presiding officer's direction, reports to the House, and has a secretariat provided by the Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha secretariat.

A retired judge of the Supreme Court, she chaired the Delimitation Commission set up in March 2020 for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, which gave its final order in May 2022.

Clause (1) says that if a State law is repugnant to a law made by Parliament on a Concurrent subject, the parliamentary law prevails and the State law is void to the extent of the repugnancy.

The NHRC is a statutory body set up on 12 October 1993 under this Act, which Parliament passed after an ordinance of September 1993.

A bench of thirteen judges held by a majority of seven to six that Parliament may amend any part of the Constitution under Article 368 but cannot destroy or damage its basic structure or essential features.

Part VIII, Articles 239 to 242, deals with the Union Territories: Article 239 provides that every Union Territory shall be administered by the President through an administrator, Article 239A allows Parliament to create a legislature for a Union Territory, Article 239AA makes special provision for the National Capital Territory of…

An eleven judge bench held by six to five that Parliament cannot abridge Fundamental Rights by amendment, but the Court did not want to unsettle the land reform amendments already acted upon, so it declared that its ruling would operate only for the future.

Article 60 provides that the President shall, before entering upon his office, make and subscribe an oath or affirmation in the presence of the Chief Justice of India, or in his absence the senior-most Judge of the Supreme Court available.

Article 13(1) makes a pre-Constitution law void only to the extent of its inconsistency with the Fundamental Rights, so the Supreme Court in Bhikaji Narain Dhakras, 1955, held that such a law is not erased but merely eclipsed, staying unenforceable until the shadow is lifted, after which it revives.

The Latin maxim means 'hear the other side', and it says no person should be condemned or punished without a fair chance to present their case.