Indian Polity Mixed Quiz: Set 25

Section 8(1) of the Indian Independence Act, 1947 gave the Constituent Assembly of each new Dominion the powers of its legislature.

Article 161 lets the Governor grant pardons, reprieves, respites and remissions of punishment, and suspend, remit or commute the sentence of any person convicted of an offence against a law on a matter to which the executive power of the state extends.

A Council of Ministers is a body made up of ministers, so it comes into being only once each of them has been sworn in.

The 86th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2002 made free and compulsory education a fundamental right. It inserted Article 21A, under which the State shall provide free and compulsory education to every child between the ages of six and fourteen years.

When the Supreme Court began in 1950, Article 124(1) provided for a Chief Justice of India and not more than seven other judges, eight in all, "until Parliament by law prescribes a larger number".

Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar was the Chief Justice of India when the nine-judge bench delivered its verdict in Justice K.S.

In this case of 1973 a bench of thirteen judges, the largest the Supreme Court has ever assembled, held by seven votes to six that Parliament may amend any part of the Constitution but may not damage or destroy its basic structure.

Article 234 of the Constitution says that appointments of persons other than district judges to the judicial service of a state are made by the Governor, following rules framed after consulting the State Public Service Commission and the High Court of that state.

Article 226 gives every High Court the power to issue writs for the enforcement of Fundamental Rights. The five writs are habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, certiorari and quo warranto.

The National Human Rights Commission works under the administrative control of the Ministry of Home Affairs, which is the nodal ministry for human rights in India.

Article 148 of the Constitution provides for one Comptroller and Auditor General of India, so the office is held by a single person and not by a panel.

Article 32 gives every person the right to move the Supreme Court directly when a fundamental right is violated, and it is itself a fundamental right.

Sindhi was added to the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution by the 21st Constitutional Amendment Act of 1967. The Eighth Schedule is the list of languages the Constitution recognises, and a candidate may take the civil services examination in any of them.

Article 149 says the Comptroller and Auditor General shall perform such duties and exercise such powers as Parliament may by law prescribe.

Mizoram is a full state, not a Union Territory. It was carved out of Assam as a Union Territory in 1972, and after the Mizo Accord of 1986 it became a state on 20 February 1987 under the 53rd Constitutional Amendment, on the same day as Arunachal Pradesh.

The Eighth Schedule of the Constitution lists 22 languages. It began with 14 languages in 1950.

A Lok Adalat works by bringing the two sides to a settlement, so it can only handle matters the parties are free to compromise.

Article 124(2) says a judge of the Supreme Court shall hold office until he or she attains the age of 65 years.

Under Article 124(4), a judge of the Supreme Court can be removed by an order of the President only after each House of Parliament, in the same session, presents an address supported by a majority of its total membership and by two-thirds of the members present and voting, on the…

Under Article 131, the Supreme Court alone can hear, as a court of first instance, disputes between the Government of India and one or more States, between the Government of India and a State on one side and other States on the other, or between two or more States.