Indian Polity and Constitution Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 30)

That power stays with the Governor, as the appointing authority under Article 311(1), not with the High Court’s Article 235 control.

Article 235 does not extend to terminating a District Judge or reducing their rank — that power stays with the Governor.

The Supreme Court held that disciplinary inquiries into judicial officers must stay under High Court supervision, not the executive.

A District Judge’s posting and promotion rest with the Governor, but only in consultation with the High Court.

Article 235 gives the High Court control over posting, promotion, and leave for the subordinate judiciary.

The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, made Ladakh a Union Territory without a legislature, and separately gave the President Article 240-style power there, through ordinary legislation rather than a constitutional amendment.

Article 240’s power over Puducherry lapses once its own elected Legislative Assembly is constituted and meets. That happened in 1963, so the power has stayed dormant there since.

A regulation under Article 240 carries the same legal force as an Act of Parliament. It can even repeal or amend an existing Parliament law applicable to that territory.

Article 240 lets the President make regulations for the peace, progress, and good government of specific Union Territories named in the Article itself.

A Red Corner Notice asks law enforcement worldwide to provisionally arrest a wanted person pending extradition. It requires both a court arrest warrant and dual criminality to be issued.

The Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018 was enacted specifically to let the state confiscate the assets of economic offenders who flee India to avoid prosecution.

Dual criminality is a core principle in extradition law. It means the alleged offence must be recognised as a crime under the laws of both countries involved.

Extradition to and from India is governed by the Extradition Act, 1962. It lays down the procedure India follows when sending a fugitive abroad or bringing one back.

An Advisory Board of three people qualified to be High Court judges reviews each case within three weeks of detention and submits its report within seven weeks.

Promoting the educational and economic interests of SCs/STs is actually a Directive Principle (Article 46), not a Fundamental Duty; protecting monuments of historic importance as worded here also doesn’t match Article 51A’s actual text — so III and IV are the ones not tied to Fundamental Duties.

India held simultaneous elections in 1951-52, 1957, 1962, and 1967, before the cycle broke down due to early Assembly dissolutions.

The legislature cannot delegate its essential legislative function. That function is choosing the legislative policy and enacting it as a binding rule. Ancillary details may be delegated. A related limit is excessive delegation, as in Hamdard Dawakhana (1959).

The RTE Act, 2009 makes free and compulsory education a legal entitlement for children aged 6 to 14.