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(1) In August 2026, expressing deep concern over structural safety, a High Court in India initiated an unusual suo motu PIL regarding the precarious condition of a massive dome on its building, warning that it was severely damaged and "may collapse at any moment" if urgent restoration was not undertaken.

Which High Court initiated this self-directed PIL?

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(2) As a young student at Cambridge, Justice Mohammad Hidayatullah once read a controversial novel for reasons he later admitted were 'of which the law takes note'. Years later, applying the Hicklin test as a judge of the Supreme Court, he concurred in declaring that very book obscene – despite his admiration for its author.

Which book was this?

(3) In 1957, a committee chaired by Balwantrai Gopalji Mehta recommended a three-tier structure of local self-government to strengthen democratic decentralization in rural India. Decades later, this model received explicit constitutional recognition through Part IX of the Constitution and the 73rd Constitutional Amendment.

Which system of governance did these reforms institutionalize?

(4) Which Middle Eastern country became the first in the region to completely abolish the death penalty, intending to replace it with life imprisonment alongside aggravated hard labour instead? This abolition was approved by a majority of the 128-member senate, but faced opposition from certain factions, such as the Hezbollah bloc.

(5) Born in Cuttack to Odia litterateur Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (and niece of CPI pioneer Bhagabati Charan Panigrahi), this author and translator was dubbed the 'Iron Lady of Odisha'. Her name also headlines a Supreme Court ruling that clarified the right against self-incrimination under Article 20(3).

Name her.

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