UPSC CSE Judiciary — practice questions
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Practice UPSC CSE Judiciary in the app →A judge stays in office until retirement age and can be removed only in rare cases. What does this protect?Why are the salaries of judges kept outside the approval of the legislature?A newspaper editor is punished for insulting a court ruling. Which power did the court use?By convention the senior-most Supreme Court judge becomes Chief Justice. When was this first broken?The Chief Justice recommends new judges after consulting four senior-most judges. What is this principle calleOn what grounds alone can a Supreme Court or High Court judge be removed?In 1991 the first motion to remove a Supreme Court judge was signed by how many MPs?Unlike some federations, India has no separate State courts. What is this feature called?Punjab and Haryana dispute river water. Under which jurisdiction does the Supreme Court hear it directly?A person loses in the High Court and takes the case higher. Which jurisdiction is this?The President asks the Supreme Court for its opinion on a constitutional question. Which jurisdiction is used?Is the President bound to accept the Supreme Court's advice on a reference?A district court gives a ruling that contradicts a Supreme Court judgment. Which prevails?A lawyer files a case on behalf of poor prisoners who cannot approach the court themselves. What is this calleUndertrials in Bihar had spent longer in jail than their possible sentence. Which early PIL arose from this?A Tihar prisoner's scribbled note on torture was turned into a petition by which judge?Under which article can a citizen move the Supreme Court for writs like habeas corpus?Under which article do High Courts issue writs?The Supreme Court strikes down a law that clashes with the Constitution. What is this power called?Is the term judicial review written anywhere in the Constitution?In 1973 the Supreme Court held that Parliament cannot violate the Constitution's basic structure. Which case wIn which year was the right to property removed from the list of fundamental rights?Prices rose 23 per cent in 1973 and again sharply in 1974. By how much did they rise in 1974?In January 1974 students in which Congress-ruled State began an agitation against rising prices and corruptionWho threatened an indefinite fast unless fresh elections were held in Gujarat?Bihar students in 1974 invited which leader out of retirement to head their movement?JP's call for sweeping change in social, economic and political life was known as:The Naxalite movement takes its name from a 1967 peasant uprising in which district of West Bengal?Who led the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) formed in 1969?The nationwide railway strike of May 1974 was led by which trade union leader?For how many days did the 1974 railway strike last before it was called off?Which 1973 case ruled that Parliament cannot amend the basic features of the Constitution?In 1973 the government superseded three senior judges to appoint whom as Chief Justice of India?Which High Court judge declared Indira Gandhi's Lok Sabha election invalid on 12 June 1975?Whose election petition led to the Allahabad High Court verdict against Indira Gandhi?Under which Article of the Constitution was the Emergency proclaimed on 25 June 1975?Which President signed the Emergency proclamation on the night of 25 June 1975?Which two organisations were banned during the Emergency fearing communal disharmony?In April 1976 the Supreme Court accepted the government's plea on which point?Which Kannada writer returned his Padma Bhushan in protest against the Emergency?The forty-second amendment extended the term of legislatures from five years to how many?Which retired Chief Justice headed the 1977 commission of inquiry into Emergency excesses?How many seats did the Janata Party win on its own in the 1977 Lok Sabha election?Indira Gandhi lost her own seat in 1977 from which constituency?