Indian Polity Mixed Quiz: Set 92

Article 12 defines the State to include the Government and Parliament of India, the Government and Legislature of each State, and all local or other authorities within India or under the control of the Government of India.

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.

Of the four States listed, Bihar has the most seats in the Rajya Sabha, with 16 members. Seats in the Rajya Sabha are allotted to States and Union Territories by the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution, broadly in proportion to population.

The Rule of Law means that power is limited by law, everyone is equal before the law, and individual liberties are protected.

The Janata government set up the Ashok Mehta Committee in December 1977 to suggest how to revive the weakening Panchayati Raj institutions.

The proviso to Article 370(3) said that the President could issue a public notification ending the article only on the recommendation of the Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir.

The 44th Amendment of 1978 added a proviso to Article 74(1) letting the President ask the Council of Ministers to reconsider its advice once.

The Supreme Court held that privacy is an intrinsic part of the right to life and personal liberty guaranteed by Article 21.

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

The committee recommended that where a House has to be dissolved early, because of a hung House or a no-confidence motion for example, the mid-term election should be for the remainder of the five-year period of the House that was dissolved, which the report calls the unexpired term.

Habeas corpus is Latin for you may have the body. A High Court under Article 226, and the Supreme Court under Article 32, issues it to the person or authority holding someone in custody, ordering that the detenu be produced before the court so that the legality of the detention…

PIL in India relaxes the rule of locus standi, so statement 1 is wrong, while statements 2 and 3 are correct.

In judicial custody the accused is held in jail, not in a police lock-up, and the police need the court's leave to question them.

Part XVIII, Articles 352 to 360, contains the Emergency provisions: Article 352 provides for a Proclamation of Emergency on the ground of war, external aggression or armed rebellion, Articles 353 to 355 state its effects and the duty of the Union to protect States, Article 356 provides for President's rule…

Parole is a concession granted at the authorities' discretion, not a right, and each state frames its own parole rules.

He held the office of Vice-President from 13 May 1952 to 12 May 1962, two full terms, and then served as the second President of India from 1962 to 1967.

The Abhijit Sen Committee dealt with agricultural economics, not local self-government. Its best-known reports were on a long-term grain policy in 2002 and on whether futures trading pushed up farm prices in 2008.

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.

Decided in 1979, it arose from a newspaper report on undertrial prisoners in Bihar who had been in jail awaiting trial for longer than the maximum sentence their alleged offences carried.

Article 361A protects a person from civil or criminal liability for publishing a substantially true report of the proceedings of either House of Parliament or of a State Legislature, unless the publication is proved to have been made with malice; the protection does not extend to reports of a secret…