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Which sentencing body is specifically named in Article 72?Read the answer and worked solution →Under Article 72, any death sentence falls within whose power to grant a pardon?Read the answer and worked solution →For an advisory opinion under Article 143, the President refers a question to the:Read the answer and worked solution →In a hung Lok Sabha, choosing a PM chiefly requires assessing who can win:Read the answer and worked solution →Which internal threat can justify a national emergency under Article 352?Read the answer and worked solution →Before a national emergency, the President must receive whose written decision?Read the answer and worked solution →Both Houses remain in existence. A new national emergency needs approval within:Read the answer and worked solution →A national emergency extends Union executive power to giving States:Read the answer and worked solution →During a national emergency, Parliament gains power to legislate on the:Read the answer and worked solution →An Article 359 order cannot suspend court enforcement of which rights?Read the answer and worked solution →President's Rule under Article 356 concerns failure of:Read the answer and worked solution →Under President's Rule, State legislative powers may be exercised by authority of:Read the answer and worked solution →Article 356 does not authorise the President to assume the powers of a:Read the answer and worked solution →A financial-emergency direction may require State Money Bills to be reserved for the:Read the answer and worked solution →Vice-presidential eligibility combines age 35 with qualification for which House?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the Vice-President's normal constitutional term?Read the answer and worked solution →A Vice-President is removed by Rajya Sabha's resolution agreed to by:Read the answer and worked solution →Rajya Sabha's resolution to remove the Vice-President needs a majority of:Read the answer and worked solution →A Vice-President wishing to resign addresses the resignation to the:Read the answer and worked solution →If the President dies, who acts as President until the elected successor takes office?Read the answer and worked solution →While the VP acts as President, Rajya Sabha chairing duties are:Read the answer and worked solution →The VP discharges presidential functions during illness until:Read the answer and worked solution →Article 68 says an election after a Vice-President's death must be held:Read the answer and worked solution →Who allocates portfolios among Union ministers in normal political practice?Read the answer and worked solution →A Union minister remains outside both Houses for six consecutive months. The minister:Read the answer and worked solution →What normally follows a Prime Minister's resignation?Read the answer and worked solution →A minister rejects Cabinet policy. The duty is:Read the answer and worked solution →Under Article 75, ministers individually hold office during whose pleasure?Read the answer and worked solution →Which group forms the Union Cabinet defined in Article 352?Read the answer and worked solution →The Union Council of Ministers, including the PM, is capped at what Lok Sabha fraction?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which sentencing body is specifically named in Article 72?

  1. District Court
  2. Sessions Court
  3. Court Martial
  4. High Court
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Correct answer: C. Court Martial

The President's clemency power expressly includes punishments imposed by a Court Martial.

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Under Article 72, any death sentence falls within whose power to grant a pardon?

  1. Prime Minister
  2. President of India
  3. Lok Sabha Speaker
  4. Union Law Minister
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Correct answer: B. President of India

Article 72 includes all cases in which the sentence is death within presidential clemency power.

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For an advisory opinion under Article 143, the President refers a question to the:

  1. The Supreme Court
  2. The Union Cabinet
  3. Election Commission
  4. A State High Court
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Correct answer: A. The Supreme Court

Article 143 allows the President to refer qualifying questions to the Supreme Court for its opinion.

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