Under the Constitution, who appoints Judges of a High Court, and after consulting whom?
- A.The Prime Minister, after consulting the Law Minister
- B.The President, after consulting the Chief Justice of India
- C.The Chief Justice of India, after consulting the President
- D.The Governor of the State, after consulting the High Court Chief Justice
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Explanation
The answer is the President, after consulting the Chief Justice of India. The release is explicit on both halves: the power is one the Constitution confers on the President, and it is exercised after consultation with the Chief Justice of India. The order of those two steps matters, because a question will sometimes reverse them.
Option C does exactly that reversal and is the strongest distractor. The Prime Minister and the Law Minister have no constitutional role in the appointment itself, which rules out option A. A Governor does figure in consultation for High Court appointments under the constitutional scheme, but the appointing authority is not the Governor, so option D fails on the same point. Hold the pair as consultation first, warrant afterwards.
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Practice Questions
How many judicial officers were appointed as Judges and Additional Judges in the September 2026 announcement?
- A.Ten
- B.Twelve
- C.Fourteen
- D.Sixteen
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The Ministry of Law and Justice announced the elevation of fourteen serving judicial officers, spread over four High Courts. The largest share went to Delhi, which took seven of them, two as Judges and five as Additional Judges.
Read the full explanation →Which High Court received the largest number of the fourteen appointments?
- A.Karnataka High Court
- B.Jharkhand High Court
- C.Delhi High Court
- D.High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh
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Of those seven, two were appointed as Judges and the other five as Additional Judges, a split the release sets out separately and which is itself worth noting.
Read the full explanation →Which appointment did Air Marshal Mehtab Singh Deswal hold immediately before taking over Eastern Air Command?
- A.Vice Chief of the Air Staff
- B.Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters South Western Air Command
- C.Air Attache at the Embassy of India in Pakistan
- D.Director General (Weapon Systems) at Air Headquarters
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That was the post he held just before moving to the Eastern Air Command as its Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief.
Read the full explanation →Who assumed charge as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Air Command on 1 November 2026?
- A.Air Marshal Mehtab Singh Deswal
- B.Air Chief Marshal Ashutosh Dixit
- C.Air Marshal Paritosh Ahmed
- D.Air Marshal Dinesh Ganvir
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He took over the Eastern Air Command of the Indian Air Force as its Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, moving from the appointment of Senior Air Staff Officer at the headquarters of South Western Air Command.
Read the full explanation →In which year was Air Marshal Mehtab Singh Deswal commissioned into the flying branch of the Indian Air Force?
- A.1985
- B.1989
- C.1993
- D.1997
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He joined the flying branch of the Indian Air Force as a fighter pilot on the fourteenth of June that year, which means a career of more than three and a half decades before taking over a command.
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