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UPSC CDS Fundamental Rights & DPSP — practice questions — page 4

Explore 118 free Fundamental Rights & DPSP questions in UPSC CDS Polity. Open each question or exercise to read its content, reference answers and available explanation.

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Machal Lalung spent 54 years in custody without trial, showing the need for the right to:Read the answer and worked solution →Fundamental rights are not absolute; the government can impose:Read the answer and worked solution →The right to equality guarantees equal access to shops, hotels, wells and:Read the answer and worked solution →The right to equality abolished which crude manifestation of inequality?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Article clarifies that reservation for backward classes is not a violation of equality?Read the answer and worked solution →Protection of life and personal liberty is guaranteed by:Read the answer and worked solution →An arrested person must be produced before the nearest magistrate within:Read the answer and worked solution →The Supreme Court has held that the right to life includes the right to shelter and:Read the answer and worked solution →Arrest on the mere apprehension of unlawful activity is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Preventive detention can be extended without review only for:Read the answer and worked solution →No person may be punished for the same offence more than once. This protects against:Read the answer and worked solution →The Constitution forbids employing children below what age in factories and mines?Read the answer and worked solution →Freedom of religion includes the freedom of conscience, meaning a person may also:Read the answer and worked solution →The right to propagate religion does not allow:Read the answer and worked solution →Religious and linguistic minorities have the fundamental right to set up their own:Read the answer and worked solution →Dr. Ambedkar called which right the heart and soul of the Constitution?Read the answer and worked solution →The writ ordering an arrested person to be produced before the court is:Read the answer and worked solution →The writ issued when an office holder is not doing a legal duty is:Read the answer and worked solution →A writ restraining a person from holding an office he is not entitled to is:Read the answer and worked solution →The National Human Rights Commission was established in:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the writsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the fundamental rightsRead the answer and worked solution →Find the real termRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the rights wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Enforced or guidelineRead the answer and worked solution →Which writRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Rights bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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Machal Lalung spent 54 years in custody without trial, showing the need for the right to:

  1. Fair and speedy trial
  2. Own private property
  3. Vote in every election
  4. Free school education
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Correct answer: A. Fair and speedy trial

1. His case never came up for hearing. 2. Life and liberty must mean a trial in time. 3. So a fair and speedy trial is a right. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 2, Rights in the Indian Constitution._

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Fundamental rights are not absolute; the government can impose:

  1. Unlimited taxes on them
  2. Reasonable restrictions
  3. No restrictions at all
  4. Total bans on all rights
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Correct answer: B. Reasonable restrictions

1. Courts can strike down unreasonable limits. 2. But some limits are allowed. 3. These are reasonable restrictions. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 2, Rights in the Indian Constitution._

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The right to equality guarantees equal access to shops, hotels, wells and:

  1. Army camps
  2. Bank vaults
  3. Bathing ghats
  4. Private homes
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Correct answer: C. Bathing ghats

1. Public places must be open to all. 2. No bar on grounds of religion, race, caste or sex. 3. Bathing ghats are listed. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 2, Rights in the Indian Constitution._

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