Judicial Service Exams: Question And Answers(MCQs) Based On Latest Legal Developments(2)

1. Which of the following Amendment of the Constitution deals with reservation for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in education and public employment? (a) 101 (b) 102 (c) 103 (d) 104 Ans.: (c) [103rd Constitutional Amendment provides 10% reservation for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in education and public employment] 2. In which of the following cases Supreme Court has recently upheld the validity of the 103rd Constitutional Amendment which introduced 10% reservation for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in education and public employment? (a) Jarnail Singh v. Lachhmi Narain Gupta (b) Janhit Abhiyan v. Union Of India (c) Sunil Kumar vs State of Bihar (d) None of the above Ans.: (b) [In Janhit Abhiyan v. Union Of India the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court by 3:2 majority upheld the validity of the 103rd Constitutional Amendment which introduced 10% reservation for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in education and public employment.] 3. Who among the following Judges wrote the minority Judgement in the EWS Case holding that the 103rd Amendment to the Constitution– by excluding backward classes – is violative of the basic structure of the Constitution? (a) Justice Bela Trivedi (b) Justice Ravindra Bhat (c) Justice JB Pardiwala (d) None of the above Ans.: (b) 4. Who among the following Judges observed in the EWS judgement that, 'at the end of seventy-five years of our independence, we need to revisit the system of reservation in the larger interest of the society as a whole, as a step forward towards transformative constitutionalism'? (a) Justice Bela Trivedi (b) Justice S. Ravindra Bhat (c) Justice Pardiwala (d) Justice UU Lalit Ans.: (a) 5. Who among the following Judges observed in the EWS judgement that "this court has for the first time, in the seven decades of the republic, sanctioned an avowedly exclusionary and discriminatory principle"? (a) Justice Bela Trivedi (b) Justice S. Ravindra Bhat (c) Justice JB Pardiwala (d) Justice UU Lalit Ans.: (b) 6.Who among the following Chief Justice/s of India took a minority view in a Constitution Bench Judgement? (a) Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar (b) Justice Dipak Mishra (c) Justice UU Lalit (d) (a) and (c) Ans.: (d) 7. In which of the following cases Justice UU Lalit took a minority view during his period as Chief Justice of India? (a) Triple Talaq Case (b) EWS Quota Case (c) Aadhaar Case (d) None of the above Ans.: (b) [In Janhit Abhiyan v. Union Of India the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court by 3:2 majority upheld the validity of the 103rd Constitutional Amendment which introduced 10% reservation for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in education and public employment. Then CJI UU Lalit and Justice S Ravindra Bhat were in dissent.] 8. In which of the following cases Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar took a minority view during his period as Chief Justice of India (a) Triple Talaq Case (b) EWS Quota Case (c) Aadhaar Case (d) None of the above Ans.: (a) Triple Talaq Case [In Shayara Bano v. Union of India, the Supreme Court Constitution Bench declared the practice of Triple Talaq as unconstitutional by 3:2 majority. Justices Kurian Joseph, UU Lalit and RF Nariman delivered the majority Judgment. Then CJI Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice Abdul Nazeer dissented.] 9. Who among the following former Judges has been appointed by the Supreme Court to head the Committee to enquire into the security lapse which happened during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Punjab on January 5, 2022? (a) Justice RV Ravindran (b) Justice Indu Malhotra (c) Justice Vineet Saran (d) None of the above Ans.: (b) [ In Lawyers Voice Vs State of Punjab, Supreme Court appointed former Supreme Court judge Justice Indu Malhotra to head the Committee to enquire into the security lapse which happened during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Punjab on January 5. The Court opined that the "questions cannot be left to one-sided enquiry" and a judicially trained mind needs to oversee the probe. The Director-General of the National Investigation Agency or his nominee not below the rank of IG, Director General of Police of Union Territory of Chandigarh, ADGP (Security) of Punjab and the Registrar General of the Punjab and Haryana High Court (who has seized the records relating to PM's visit) are the other members of the Committee] 10. In which of the following cases the Supreme Court expanded the...

Judicial Service Exams: Question And Answers(MCQs) Based On Latest Legal Developments(2)

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