Law Questions and Answers for Competitive Exams | Law Quiz Set 41

1 A snatcher cut the nostrils of a woman and committed grievous hurt and later she died. What offence if any, he has committed ?

2 The restrainment of a person in a place or compelling the person to go in a particular direction with an exterior motive will amount to :

3 Which offence is outside the range of culpable homicide in view of the fact that the accused had neither intention nor knowledge about the consequence, yet it is punishable ?

4 The total forest cover in our country is far less than the ideal minimum of 1/3 of the total land. Therefore the Parliament by 42nd Amendment to the Constitution has added two more Articles to ensure improvement of environment and impose duty on every citizen. They are :

5 The Supreme Court held that, “the precautionary principle has no applicability in this case as the gains and losses of building a big dam are predictable and certain”, in one of the following case :

6 Which one of the following has been described as the “Magna-Carta” of the environment ?

7 The Supreme Court constituted Bhure Lal Committee to examine and report the low sulphur diesel as a clean fuel to be used by vehicles in one of the following case :

8 Read the Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and answer using codes given belows :

Assertion (A) : All natural resources are held in trust by the government. The doctrine enjoins upon the government to protect the resources for the enjoyment of general public rather than to permit their use for private ownership or commercial purpose. Reason (R) : The public has a right to expect certain lands and natural resources to retain their natural characteristic in finding its way into the law of the land. Codes :

9 “Cases involving issues of environmental pollution, ecological destruction and conflict over natural resources are on the increase and hence setting up of environmental courts on the regional basis with one professional judge and two experts drawn from Ecological Science Research Group is necessary”, was observed in one of the following case :

10 Who has remarked that International Law is the vanishing point of Jurisprudence because in his view, rules of International Law are followed by courtesy and hence they should not be kept in the category of law ?

11 In which of the following cases the World Court by majority has taken the view that the sources of international law are not hierarchical but are necessarily complimentary and inter-related ?

12 Who has remarked that the wide acceptance of declaratory theory is due to the reaction against the traditional conception of recognition as a political act purely and simply. There is a legal duty on the part of the state to recognise any community that has in fact acquired the characteristics of statehood ?

13 In which of the following cases the Supreme Court clarified the distinction between ‘expulsion’ and ‘extradition’ following international norms ?

14 Which of the following statement/statements is/are correct ?

1. By asylum we mean shelter and active protection extended to a political refugee from another state which admits him on his request
2. Under Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Right to asylum is recognised
3. International Court of Justice explained the distinction between territorial and extra-territorial asylum in the Asylum Case (Colombia V. Perus)
4. In 1966, the United Nations declaration on territorial asylum was unanimously adopted by the General Assembly

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15 Which of the following statement/statements is/are not correct in reference to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) ?

1. The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) consists of 54 members which are elected by General Assembly
2. Half of its members are elected each year for a term of two years
3. India is one of the members of the council
4. President of ECOSOC is elected for two year term

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