Which Article of the Constitution provides that there shall be a High Court for each state?
- A.Article 124
- B.Article 214
- C.Article 226
- D.Article 233
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Article 214. It is the opening article of Part VI, Chapter V of the Constitution and says that there shall be a High Court for each state. Article 231 allows Parliament to establish a common High Court for two or more states, as it has done for Punjab and Haryana, so the rule of Article 214 is not absolute in practice.
Option A, Article 124, provides for the establishment and constitution of the Supreme Court of India, not of a High Court. Option C, Article 226, is the writ jurisdiction of a High Court, a power of the court rather than its establishment, and it is the article most often confused with 214 because both are the best-known numbers of this chapter. Option D, Article 233, deals with the appointment of district judges by the Governor in consultation with the High Court, which belongs to Chapter VI on subordinate courts. The sequence worth memorising is 214 for the court, 215 for its status as a court of record, 216 for its composition and 217 for the appointment of its judges.
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Practice Questions
View allThe Patna High Court was established in which year?
- A.1862
- B.1912
- C.1916
- D.1935
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The Patna High Court was created by Letters Patent in February 1916 and began sitting on 1 March 1916, which is why its centenary fell in 2016.
Read the full explanation →Before the establishment of the Patna High Court, the cases of Bihar were heard by which High Court?
- A.Allahabad High Court
- B.Calcutta High Court
- C.Nagpur High Court
- D.Madras High Court
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Bihar formed part of the Bengal Presidency, and its appeals therefore went to the High Court at Calcutta, which had been established in 1862 under the Indian High Courts Act, 1861.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Chief Justice of the Patna High Court?
- A.Sir Edward Maynard Des Champs Chamier
- B.Sir Barnes Peacock
- C.Sir Sultan Ahmed
- D.Sir Harilal Kania
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The correct answer is A, Sir Edward Maynard Des Champs Chamier, who became the first Chief Justice of the Patna High Court when it began sitting in 1916.
Read the full explanation →The Ranchi Bench of the Patna High Court became the separate High Court of Jharkhand on which date?
- A.1 November 2000
- B.9 November 2000
- C.15 November 2000
- D.1 March 2000
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Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar on that date under the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000, and the Ranchi Bench of the Patna High Court became the High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi.
Read the full explanation →A High Court is a court of record with the power to punish for its contempt under which Article?
- A.Article 129
- B.Article 215
- C.Article 218
- D.Article 227
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It says that every High Court shall be a court of record and shall have all the powers of such a court, including the power to punish for contempt of itself.
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