Mock Test-5 (Paper-1) (Question 51-100)

Total Questions: 50

1. The Supreme Court of India enjoys

Correct Answer: (d) Original, appellate and advisory jurisdictions.
Solution:The Supreme Court has originally jurisdiction i.e. cases which can originate with the Supreme Court alone over disputes between (a) the Government of India and one or more states (b) the Government of India and any state and states on one side and one or more state on the other (c) two or more states.

2. Which one of the following jurisdictions of the Indian judiciary covers Public Interest Litigation?

Correct Answer: (b) Appellate Jurisdiction
Solution:PIL (Public Interest Litigation) writ petition can be filed in Supreme Court under Article 32 only if a question concerning the enforcement of a fundamental right is involved. Under Article 226, a writ petition can be filed in a High court whether or not a Fundamental Right is involved. Thus, it comes under appellate jurisdiction.

3. Under which one of the following Sections of the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 has power of State Government to impose collective fine been provided ?

Correct Answer: (d) Section 14 A
Solution:Under the Section 14A of the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 has power of state Government to impose collective fine been provided.

4. Consider the following statements :

1. The Advocate General of a State in India is appointed by the President of India upon the recommendations of the Governor of the concerned State.
2. As provided in the Code of Civil Procedure, High Courts have original appellate advisory jurisdiction at the State level.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Correct Answer: (b) 2 only
Solution:The Governor of each State shall appoint a person who is qualified to be appointed as a Judge of a High Court to be Advocate General for the State. The Governor appoints the Advocate General of the state. The person who is appointed should be qualified to be appointed a judge of a high court.

The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 is a procedural law related to the administration of civil proceedings in India. The Code is divided into two parts: the first part contains 158 sections and the second part contains the First Schedule, which has 51 Orders and Rules.

The act clarified that the provisions of the Civil Procedure Code as amended by the Act would have an overriding effect over any rules of the High Court or of the amendments made by the state government concerned.

5. Which one of the following statements regarding the Human Rights Council is not correct?

Correct Answer: (a) It is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system made up of all members of the UN.
Solution:The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world. The UNHRC has 47 members elected for staggered three-year terms on a regional group basis.

The members of the General Assembly elect the members who occupy the UNHRC's 47 seats. The term of each seat is three years, and no member may occupy a seat for more than two consecutive terms.

6. What is/are the major difference/differences between a written and an unwritten Constitution?

1. A written Constitution is the formal source of all Constitutional Laws in the country and the unwritten Constitution is not the formal source.
2. A written Constitution is entirely codified whereas an unwritten Constitution is not.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below

Correct Answer: (c) Both 1 and 2
Solution:A written constitution is one which is found in one or more than one legal documents duly enacted in the form of laws. It is precise, definite and systematic and codified. An unwritten constitution is one in which most of the principles of the government have never been enacted in the form of laws.

It consists of customs, conventions, traditions and some written laws bearing different dates. It is not codified. It is unsystematic, indefinite and unprecise.So, Written constitution is the formal source of all constitutional laws and Unwritten Constitution is not the formal source.

7. When the RBI wants to inject liquidity into economy, it may adopt the following:

(1) Buy the government securities from the banks.
(2) Enter into reverse repo operations
(3) Raise cash Reserve Ratio
(4) Reduce SLR.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

Correct Answer: (b) 1 and 4 only
Solution:By buying the government securities from the banks and reducing SLR may inject money into the system. However Raising cash Reserve Ratio may take away liquidity from the market as the banks will have to deposit more money with the RBI and similarly entering the reverse repo operations may also take away liquidity from the market.

8. If all the banks in an economy are nationalized and converted into a monopoly bank, the total deposits

Correct Answer: (c) will neither increase nor decrease
Solution:It will remain the same, because banks do not increase the national income. So it remains the same immaterial of whether banks are there or not.

9. Consider the following liquid assets:

1. Demand deposits with the banks
2. Time deposits with the banks
3. Savings deposits with the banks
4. Currency

The correct sequence of these decreasing orders of Liquidity is:

Correct Answer: (d) 4-1-3-2
Solution:Currency is most liquid, because you can use it as and when you want. Time deposit with bank (e.g. fixed deposit), are least liquid compared to savings/demand deposit with banks and currency.

10. The first Land Development Bank was established in 1920. It was located at-

Correct Answer: (b) Jhang
Solution:The first land development bank was started at Jhang in Punjab in 1920.