Indian Polity Mixed Quiz: Set 114

Article 26 gives the right to manage religious affairs to every religious denomination, with no exception for minor communities.

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.

The power to issue writs for fundamental rights is not exclusive to the Supreme Court, because High Courts also issue writs under Article 226.

The Prevention of Terrorism Act was enacted in 2002 and repealed in 2004, and the amendment of the UAPA made in the same year carried its definitions of terrorist act and terrorist organisation into that older Act, which is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 Governor makes ordinances on the advice of the Council of Ministers and can withdraw them at any time.

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.

The Chief Minister heads the State's council of ministers, which is part of the executive, not of the Legislature as defined by the Constitution.

Article 239(1) provides that every Union Territory shall be administered by the President acting, to such extent as he thinks fit, through an administrator appointed by him with such designation as he may specify.

VVPAT is a printer attached to the EVM that lets the voter see, on paper, that the vote went to the chosen candidate.

The Committee on Prevention of Corruption, chaired by K. Santhanam, reported in 1964, and the Central Vigilance Commission was created in the same year by a government resolution as the apex body for vigilance in the Union administration.

It is not correct, because the President causes the Commission's reports to be laid before each House of Parliament, not only before the Lok Sabha.

Article 64 provides that the Vice-President shall be ex-officio Chairman of the Council of States, that is the Rajya Sabha, and shall hold no other office of profit; when he acts as President he does not perform the duties of Chairman and draws no salary as Chairman.

The writ, whose name means to have the body, orders the person or authority holding someone to produce that person before the court, and the court sets the person free if the detention is illegal.

His National Front government lost the confidence motion in the Lok Sabha in November 1990 after the Bharatiya Janata Party withdrew support, and he resigned, becoming the first Prime Minister to be removed by a vote of the House rather than by resignation or an election.

Article 151(1) says the CAG's reports relating to the accounts of the Union are submitted to the President, who causes them to be laid before each House of Parliament.

Article 60 lays down the form of the President's oath and requires that it be made in the presence of the Chief Justice of India, or, in his absence, the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court available.

Under Article 312, Parliament may by law create new All India Services common to the Union and the States.

It protects civil servants of the Union and the States against arbitrary dismissal, removal or reduction in rank. Article 311 lays down two safeguards.

Under Article 109, the Rajya Sabha must return a Money Bill within 14 days, so it can hold the bill up for only about two weeks.

The Union Budget is always presented first in the Lok Sabha, and the money bills that give effect to it can begin only in that House.