Daily Quiz for Judiciary Exam Preparation – January 8th – Mixed Bag

1. In which of the following cases, the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court recently held that “Commission appointed under Commissions of Inquiry Act is not a Court for the purposes of Contempt of Courts Act even though it is headed by a sitting Supreme Court Judge.”?

2. According to the new Supreme Court Rules, 2013 ‘misconduct or conduct unbecoming of an advocate-onrecord” include

3. Which of the following Chief Justice of India recommended the name of two lawyers (together) for the appointment as Supreme Court Judges for the first time in the History of India?

4. In Manzoor Ali Khan v Union of India, 2014 (9) SCALE 202 the Supreme Court suggested that all proposals for sanction placed before any sanctioning authority empowered to grant sanction for prosecution of a public servant under section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act must be decided within a period of………………..months of the receipt of the proposal by the authority concerned.

5. Who among the following lawyers rejected the Supreme Court’s proposal for appointment as the Special Public Prosecutor in Coal blocks allocation Scam Case?

6. Sir Rabinder Singh has been promoted to …………………… Court of Appeal, becoming the first Indian origin Judge to be promoted to the post.

7. Justice CS Kaman retired from the post of High Court Judge while

8. The Constitution bench of the Supreme Court which decided the ‘Triple Talaq’ case constituted of how many women judges?

9. Who was the Finance Minister of India when the Goods and Service Tax (GST) was implemented?

10. Who heads the five-member commission appointed by the Government to examine the subcategorisation of Other Backward Classes (OBCs)?

11. The chief judicial magistrate is competent to take cognizance of any offence, committed any where in his district, notwithstanding the fact that the area in which the offence was committed, happens to fall within the local limits of the area assigned by the chief judicial magistrate to some other judicial magistrate, subordinate to him, in accordance with the provisions of section 14 and 15 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The statement is

12. In which of the following cases, the Supreme Court directed all State Governments to appoint special magistrates to dispose of petty cases?

13. An order of the High Court under section 9(6) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 to hold a trial in the jail premises is

14. X was convicted by an Additional Sessions Judge for an offence under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code. Later on the appointment of the judge was quashed by the High Court on the ground that his appointment was in violation of the provisions of Art. 233 of the Constitution. Thereupon, a point was raised that the judgments rendered by the Additional Sessions Judge were void and required to be set aside. Decide

15. Subject to the control of the High Court, the , from time to time, define the local limits to the areas within which the magistrates appointed under section 11 or under section 13 may exercise all or any of the powers with which they may respectively be invested under this Code.