MCQ 09 January 2024

Daily MCQs for Judiciary Prelims Exams - (09 January 2024)



Question/ Answer
Question1:- Which of the following is the best evidence?
  • (a) Documentary evidence
  • (b) Direct evidence
  • (c) Hearsay evidence
  • (d) Circumstantial evidence
Answer is A is correct. Best evidence rule deals with documentary evidence, whereby only document to be produced in evidence when there is evidence in written form as per Section 91 and 92 of the Act. Therefore option (a) is the correct answer.
Question2:- In which year the electronic evidence was incorporated in the Indian evidence Act as a part of documentary Evidence?
  • (a) 2001
  • (b) 2002
  • (c) 2000
  • (d) 1999
Answer is C is correct. Electronic evidence was incorporated in the Indian Evidence Act as a part of documentary evidence through Act 21 of 2000. Therefore option (c) is the correct answer.
Question3:- Which Section of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 is founded upon the doctrine laid down in ‘Pickard v. Sears’?
  • (a) Section 6
  • (b) Section 32
  • (c) Section 115
  • (d) Section 167
Answer is C is correct. Doctrine of estoppel which is dealt under Section 115 of the Act was laid in the case of Pickard v. Sears. Therefore option (c) is the correct answer.
Question4:- To prove the case of ‘alibi’ the burden lies on
  • (a) The prosecution
  • (b) The complainant
  • (c) The witness
  • (d) The accused
Answer is D is correct. ‘Alibi’ means somewhere else, to prove this the burden lays on the accused as this a defence available to him to get away with crime. Therefore option (d) is the correct answer.
Question5:- Section 105 of Evidence Act applies to:—
  • (a) Criminal Trials
  • (b) Civil Trials
  • (c) Both (a) and (b)
  • (d) Neither (a) nor (b)
Answer is A is correct. Section 105 applies only to criminal trials. When a person is accused of any offence, the burden of proving the existence of circumstances bringing the case within any of the General Exceptions in the Indian Penal Code or within any special exception or proviso contained in any other part of the same Code, or in any law defining the offence, is upon him, and the Court shall presume the absence of such circumstances. Therefore option (a) is the correct answer.
Question6:- A person shall be deemed to be dead if he remained unheard for
  • (a) 5 years
  • (b) 7 years
  • (c) 10 years
  • (d) 12 years
Answer is B is correct. As per Section 108 of the Act, when a person is not heard for 7 years by those who would naturally have heard of him if he had been alive, the burden of proving that he is alive is shifted to the person who affirms it. Therefore option (b) is the correct answer.
Question7:- Section 114 of the Indian Evidence Act provides which of the following?
  • (a) The Court may ask questions to parties.
  • (b) The Court may stop proceedings.
  • (c) The Court may presume existence of certain facts.
  • (d) The Court may call upon extra proof.
Answer is C is correct. As per Section 114 of the Act, the Court may presume the existence of any fact which it thinks likely to have happened, regard being had to the common course of natural events, human conduct and public and private business, in their relation to the facts of the particular case. Therefore option (c) is the correct answer.