Indian Polity Mixed Quiz: Set 97

Article 47 directs the State to regard the raising of the level of nutrition and the standard of living of its people and the improvement of public health as among its primary duties, and it adds that the State shall endeavour to bring about the prohibition of intoxicating drinks and…

Part IV of the Constitution, Articles 36 to 51, sets out the goals of a welfare state: Article 38 asks the State to promote the welfare of the people and to reduce inequalities of income, status and opportunity, Article 39 directs the distribution of material resources for the common good…

The National Security Act, 1980 permits preventive detention for a maximum of twelve months from the date of detention, though the detaining authority may order a shorter period and extend it within that ceiling.

Until then the UAPA allowed the Government to notify only an organisation as a terrorist organisation; the UAPA (Amendment) Act, 2019 added the power to notify an individual as a terrorist and to enter that name in the Fourth Schedule of the Act.

Part IV of the Constitution contains the Directive Principles of State Policy in Articles 36 to 51, and Article 44 on the uniform civil code is one of them.

The Committee of Privileges of the Lok Sabha has fifteen members, nominated by the Speaker, and it examines questions of privilege referred to it and recommends what action the House should take.

Article 22(4) says that no law providing for preventive detention shall authorise detention for longer than three months unless an Advisory Board, consisting of persons qualified to be judges of a High Court, has reported before the expiry of that period that there is sufficient cause for the detention.

A Zero FIR is registered without a regular serial number at any police station when information about a cognizable offence is given there, and it is then transferred to the police station having jurisdiction over the place of the offence, where it gets a regular number.

The Portuguese Civil Code of 1867 was extended to Goa and continued in force after its liberation in 1961, so Goans of every religion are governed by largely the same rules on marriage, divorce and succession, with only a few community-specific usages surviving.

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

The National Investigation Agency Act was passed in the weeks following the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai, which had exposed the absence of a central agency able to take over a terror case on its own, since police and public order are State subjects.

Tribal raiders backed by Pakistan entered the Kashmir valley in the third week of October 1947, and Maharaja Hari Singh of the Dogra dynasty signed the Instrument of Accession on 26 October 1947; Governor-General Lord Mountbatten accepted it the next day, after which Indian troops were airlifted to Srinagar.

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.

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.

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.

Part XX contains Article 368 alone, which lays down the power of Parliament to amend the Constitution and the procedure for doing so: a Bill introduced in either House, passed by a majority of the total membership of that House and by a two-thirds majority of the members present and…

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.

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 Uttarakhand Assembly passed a Uniform Civil Code Bill in February 2024, the Bill received the President's assent, and the law was brought into force in January 2025, making Uttarakhand the first state of independent India to legislate a common code on marriage, divorce, live-in relationships and succession for its…

When the Central Government declares an association unlawful under the UAPA, the notification does not stand on the Government's word alone: it must be referred to a Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal constituted of one person who is a sitting judge of a High Court, and the Tribunal decides within six…