SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Under the Nagpur Pact of 1953, agreed when the Vidarbha region joined the new bilingual Bombay State and later Maharashtra, Nagpur was made the second capital of the state and at least one session of the legislature each year, the winter session, is held there.

The principal seat of the Madhya Pradesh High Court is at Jabalpur, with benches at Gwalior and Indore, while the capital of the state is Bhopal.

Chandigarh is the capital of both Punjab and Haryana and is itself a union territory, and the common High Court for the two states and for the union territory sits there.

It empowers Parliament by law to abolish an existing Legislative Council or to create one where none exists, but only if the Legislative Assembly of the state first passes a resolution supported by a majority of the total membership of the House and by not less than two-thirds of the…

West Bengal had a Legislative Council in the years after independence but abolished it in 1969, and its legislature has been unicameral since then, consisting of the Governor and the Legislative Assembly alone.

It states plainly that there shall be a High Court for each state, and the following articles complete the scheme: Article 215 makes every High Court a court of record, Article 216 leaves the number of judges to the President, Article 217 provides for their appointment, and Article 231 allows…

The Kerala High Court sits at Kochi, in the Ernakulam area, although the capital of the state is Thiruvananthapuram.

It was established in July 1862 under the Indian High Courts Act of 1861, which allowed the Crown to replace the old supreme courts and sadar courts of the Presidency towns with High Courts.

The Fugitive Economic Offenders Act of 2018 applies where a warrant of arrest has been issued for a scheduled offence involving a value of one hundred crore rupees or more and the person has left India to avoid prosecution, or refuses to return to face it.

The Financial Intelligence Unit India works under the Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance and reports to the Economic Intelligence Council, the apex body on economic offences, which is chaired by the Union Finance Minister.

The Financial Action Task Force was set up in 1989 at the summit of the Group of Seven industrial countries held in Paris, and its secretariat is housed at the headquarters of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris.

Section 12 requires every reporting entity to maintain a record of all transactions of the prescribed nature and value for a period of five years from the date of the transaction between the client and the entity, and to maintain records of the identity of its clients for five years…

Section 5 allows the Director or an authorised officer, on reasons to be recorded in writing, to attach property believed to be the proceeds of crime provisionally for a period of one hundred and eighty days.

Section 4 provides that whoever commits the offence of money laundering shall be punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term of not less than three years, which may extend to seven years, and with a fine.

The rules require a reporting entity to furnish a suspicious transaction report to the Financial Intelligence Unit not later than seven working days from the date on which it is satisfied that the transaction is suspicious.

Under the Prevention of Money-laundering Maintenance of Records Rules of 2005, a reporting entity must report all cash transactions of a value of more than ten lakh rupees, or their equivalent in foreign currency, and all series of integrally connected cash transactions that together exceed that amount within a month.

The Financial Intelligence Unit India was set up by the Government of India in November 2004 as the central national agency to receive, process, analyse and disseminate information about suspect financial transactions.

The Directorate, which works under the Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance and traces its origin to the Enforcement Unit set up on the first of May 1956, registers cases under the Act, attaches property provisionally, arrests, and files prosecution complaints in the Special Court.

The Prevention of Money Laundering Act was passed by Parliament in 2002 and is numbered as an Act of that year, but it was brought into force only on the first of July 2005, together with the Prevention of Money-laundering Maintenance of Records Rules of 2005, which set out the…

Placement comes first because the criminal must get cash into the financial system, which he does through small deposits, the purchase of bearer instruments or by mixing the cash with the takings of a shop or a petrol pump.