MCQ 13 January 2024

Daily MCQs for Judiciary Prelims Exams - (13 January 2024)



Question/ Answer
Question1:- Which of the following amendment Act empowers the Court to adjudge the reasonableness of a restriction imposed even on the right guaranteed by Article 19(1) A of the Indian Constitution?
  • (a) First Amendment Act
  • (b) Second Amendment Act
  • (c) Third Amendment Act
  • (d) Fourth Amendment Act
Answer is A is correct. Article 19(2) was substituted by Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951, s. 3, for cl. (2) with retrospective effect. Therefore option (a) is the correct answer.
Question2:- “The Fundamental Right to move this Court can therefore be appropriately described as the cornerstone of the democratic edifice raised by the Constitution. That is why it is natural that this Court should regard itself ‘as the protector and guarantor of Fundamental Rights’… In discharging the duties assigned to it, this Court has to play the role of a ‘sentinel on the qui vive’ and it must always regard it as its solemn duty to protect the said Fundamental Rights ‘zealously and vigilantly’. The above observation was made by
  • (a) Gajendragadkar
  • (b) Hidayatullah
  • (c) Fazal Ali
  • (d) HiralalKania
Answer is A is correct.
Question3:- The Right to education was inserted in the Part III of the Constitution by:
  • (a) 82nd Amendment
  • (b) 85th Amendment
  • (c) 86th Amendment
  • (d) 97th Amendment
Answer is C is correct. Right to education was inserted by 86 th Amendment Act of 2002. Therefore option (c) is the correct answer.
Question4:- Right to life under Article 21 does not include
  • (a) Right to healthy environment
  • (b) Right to die
  • (c) Right to privacy
  • (d) Right to live with human dignity
Answer is B is correct. Right to life does not include right to die as per Gian Kaur v State of Punjab. Therefore option (b) is the correct answer.
Question5:- Petitions to the Supreme Court under Article 32 are subject to the rule of res judicata except
  • (a) Quo warranto
  • (b) Habeas Corpus
  • (c) Certiorari
  • (d) Prohibition
Answer is B is correct. Habeas Corpus is an exception to Res judicata. Therefore option (b) is the correct answer.
Question6:- Which one of the following constitutional Amendment was not challenged in the Kesavananda Bharati Case?
  • (a) 24th
  • (b) 25th
  • (c) 29th
  • (d) 30th
Answer is A is correct. 24 th Amendment Act was challenged in the Keshvananda Bharati Case. Therefore option (a) is the correct answer.
Question7:- Some beggars decided to form a co-operative society for the purpose of starting a business from the alms they receive by setting up a cooperative society. Their decision to form a co-operative society is:
  • (a) Illegal
  • (b) Legal Right
  • (c) Constitutional Right
  • (d) Neither Legal nor Constitutional Right
Answer is C is correct.