Assam Judicial Services Prelims Mock Test - 5 - Judiciary Exams MCQ

The correct option is Option 4, i.e., ‘The letter was posted by Alice.’
The sentence is in the simple past tense in the active voice, and as such, has to remain in the simple past tense when being converted to passive voice. Therefore, the correct answer is Option 4.

The sentence has no error.

• Pollution is any undesirable change in physical, chemical, or biological characteristics of air, land, water, or soil.
• Agents that bring about such an undesirable change are called pollutants.
• Pollution can be broadly classified into 4 types - Air pollution, Water pollution, Noise pollution & Soil pollution.

Important Points

• Water pollution occurs when there is an addition of undesirable substances into water bodies.
• The sources of water pollution can be divided into 2 major groups:
  • Point source - It refers to the single identifiable sources like discharge pipes from a factory or sewage plant.
  • Non-point source - It refers to sources that do not originate from a single point. Example - agricultural run-offs.
• Factories and sewage treatment plants have proper drainage pipes leading to a water body for disposing their wastes and thus they are point sources of water pollution.
• Urban and Suburban lands cause water pollution by the field run offs and thus do not originate from a single point. Hence, they are non-point sources of water pollution.

A cabinet is an official government body consisting of high ranked officials of the state. The members of the cabinet are generally called Cabinet Ministers or Secretaries. It is the main body which is responsible for the day-to-day management of the government.

• Division of Indian society into seven castes: The source that informed us about the division of Indian society into seven castes is the Indica.

• The Indica is a work by the Greek historian Megasthenes, who was an ambassador of Seleucus Nicator in the court of Chandragupta Maurya.


• In his work, Megasthenes describes the social structure of India, including the division of society into seven castes.


• He mentions that the Indian society was divided into seven principal castes, each with its own occupation and duties.


• This division of society into seven castes is an important insight into the social structure of ancient India.

The correct answer is Sutlej.

Key Points

• The Sutlej river originates from Lake Langa with an elevation above 15000 feet located at the southwestern Tibet.

Additional InformationSatluj River:

• The Satluj rises from the Manasarovar-Rakas Lakes in western Tibet at a height of 4,570 m within 80 km of the source of the Indus.
• Like the Indus, it takes a north-westerly course upto the Shipki La on the Tibet-Himachal Pradesh boundary.
• It cuts deep gorges where it pierces the Great Himalaya and the other Himalayan ranges.
• Before entering the Punjab plain, it cuts a gorge in Naina Devi Dhar, where the famous Bhakra dam has been constructed.
• After entering the plain at Rupnagar (Ropar), it turns westwards and is joined by the Beas at Harike.

Beas River:

• The Beas originates near the Rohtang Pass, at a height of 4,062 m above sea level, on the southern end of the Pir Panjal Range, close to the source of the Ravi.
• It crosses the Dhaola Dhar range and it takes a south-westerly direction and meets the Satluj river at Harike in Punjab.
• It is a comparatively small river which is only 460 km long but lies entirely within the Indian territory.

Jhelum River

• The Jhelum has its source in a spring at Verinag in the south-eastern part of the Kashmir Valley.
• It flows northwards into Wular Lake (north-western part of Kashmir Valley).
• From Wular Lake, it changes its course southwards. At Baramulla the river enters a gorge in the hills.
• The river forms steep-sided narrow gorge through Pir Panjal Range below Baramula.
• At Muzaffarabad, the river takes a sharp hairpin bend southward.

Ravi River:

• The Ravi has its source in Kullu hills near the Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh.
• It drains the area between the Pir Panjal and the Dhaola Dhar ranges.
• After crossing Chamba, it takes a south-westerly turn and cuts a deep gorge in the Dhaola Dhar range.
• It enters Punjab Plains near Madhopur and later enters Pakistan below Amritsar.
• It debouches into the Chenab a little above Rangpur in Pakistani Punjab.

The correct answer is option C, Civil rebellion in Awadh.
The Massacre of Benaras, also known as the Benaras Mutiny, is a civil rebellion that took place in Awadh, present-day Uttar Pradesh. The Massacre of Benaras may also refer to the minor and unsuccessful insurrection of Wazir Ali Khan, deposed Nawab of Awadh, at Benares in northern India in 1799. In this incident, five British East India Company officials and civilians were murdered. 

Checking Statement I:

Using the above reference, we get the following arrangement:

Clearly, W is sitting second to the right of U.

Hence data in statement I is sufficient to answer the question.

Checking Statement II:

Using the above references, we get the following arrangement:

Clearly, W is sitting second to the right of U.

Hence data in statement II is sufficient to answer the question.

Here, the data in either Statement I or II alone is sufficient to answer the question.

Hence, Option C is correct.

Section 403 of the Indian Penal Code reads as:
Whoever dishonestly mis-appropriates or converts to his own use any movable property, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both. A finds a purse with money, not knowing to whom it belongs; he afterwards discovers that it belongs to B, and appropriates it to his own use. A is guilty of an offence under this section i.e. criminal misappropriation.

A Bench of 11 judges adjudged the question of the scope of the right of minorities to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice. When the cases came up for hearing before an eleven Judge Bench, during the course of hearing on 19th March, 1997, the following order was passed:-
"Since a doubt has arisen during the course of our arguments as to whether this Bench would feel itself bound by the ratio propounded in -- In Re Kerala Education Bill, 1957 (1959 SCR 955) and the Ahmedabad St. Xaviers College Society v. State of Gujarat, , it is clarified that this sized Bench would not feel itself inhibited by the views expressed in those cases since the present endeavour is to discern the true scope and interpretation of Article 30(1) of the Constitution, which being the dominant question would require examination in its pristine purity. The factum is recorded."

The Indian Evidence Act, originally passed in India by the Imperial Legislative Council in 1872, during the British Raj, contains a set of rules and allied issues governing admissibility of evidence in the Indian courts of law. It is enacted on 15 March, 1872.

According to Section 64 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, the contents of documents may be proved either by primary or by secondary evidence.
Primary evidence means that the document itself is produced for the inspection of the Court. Where a document is executed in several parts, each part is primary evidence of the document. Where a document is executed in counterpart, each counterpart being executed by one or some of the parties only, each counterpart is primary evidence as against the parties executing it.
Secondary evidence includes-
(a) certified copies given under the provisions hereinafter contained
(b) copies made from the original by mechanical processes which in themselves ensure the accuracy of the copy and copies compared with such copies
(c) copies made from or compared with the original
(d) counterparts of documents as against the parties who did not execute them
(e) oral accounts of the contents of a document given by some person who has himself seen it

S. 11 of the Specific Relief Act, 1963 provides for the following cases in which specific performance of contracts connected with trusts are enforceable:-
(1) Specific performance of a contract may, in the discretion of the court, be enforced when the act agreed to be done is in the performance wholly or partly of a trust
(2) A contract made by a trustee in excess of his powers or in breach of trust cannot be specifically enforced.

The doctrine of colourable legislation refers to the question of competency of the legislature while enacting a provision of law. This maxim implies that "when anything is prohibited directly, it is also prohibited indirectly". So, the doctrine becomes applicable whenever a legislation seeks to do in an indirect manner what it cannot do directly. If the impugned legislation falls within the competence of legislature, the question of doing something indirectly, which cannot be done directly, does not arise.

Rule 10 of Order XXXII deals with suits by or against minors and person of unsound mind. It reads as follows:
Stay of proceedings on removal, etc, of next friend-
(1) On the retirement, removal or death of the next friend of a minor, further proceedings shall be stayed until the appointment of a next friend in his place.
(2) Where the pleader of such minor omits, within a reasonable time, to take steps to get a new next friend appointed, any person interested in the minor or in the matter in issue may apply to the court for the appointment of one, and the court may appoint such person as it thinks fit.

Section 11 of the Limitation Act reads as follows:
(1) Suits instituted in the territories to which this Act extends on contracts entered into in the State of Jammu and Kashmir or in a foreign country shall be subject to the rules of limitation contained in this Act.
(2) No rule of limitation in force in the State of Jammu and Kashmir or in a foreign country shall be a defence to a suit instituted in the said territories on a contract entered into in that State or in a foreign country, unless
a. the rule has extinguished the contract and
b. the parties were domiciled in that State or in the foreign country during the period prescribed by such rule

Option (1) is incorrect: Executive Magistrate cannot give distribute business among the Subordinate Judicial Magistrates.
Option (2) is incorrect: District Magistrate cannot give distribute business among the Subordinate Judicial Magistrates.
Option (3) is incorrect: Additional District and Sessions Judge give cannot distribute business among the Subordinate Judicial Magistrates.
Option (4) is correct: Under Section 15(2) of the CrPC, the Chief Judicial Magistrate may, from time to time, make rules or give special orders, consistent with this Code, as to the distribution of business among the Judicial Magistrates subordinate to him.

According to Article 113 in the Schedule of the Limitation Act, any suit for which no period of limitation is provided elsewhere in this Schedule the limitation period for initiating an action is 3 years from the date when the right to sue accrues. Thus, option (1) is the correct answer.

Section 45 in The Indian Evidence Act, 1872, When the Court has to form an opinion upon a point of foreign law or of science or art, or as to identity of handwriting 35 [or finger impressions], the opinions upon that point of persons specially skilled in such foreign law, science or art, 36 [or in questions as to identity of handwriting] 35 [or finger impressions] are relevant facts. Such persons are called experts the opinion of an expert cannot be on the question of Indian Law.

The correct answer is On Foreign Contracts

Key Points

Section 11 of the Limitation Act addresses suits initiated in areas falling under the jurisdiction of this Act for contracts formed in the State of Jammu and Kashmir or a foreign nation. Such suits are bound by the limitation rules outlined in this Act.

Furthermore, no limitation rule in effect in the State of Jammu and Kashmir or a foreign country can serve as a defense in a lawsuit filed in the mentioned territories for a contract made in that State or in a foreign nation, except under specific conditions:

(a) The rule has led to the extinguishment of the contract.

 (b) The parties were residents of that State or the foreign country throughout the period stipulated by the aforementioned rule.

The father of our nation, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, was jailed under the charges of sedition. Mahatma Gandhi was arrested by the British police on March 10 in 1922 for writing three 'politically sensitive' articles in his weekly journal Young India, which was published from 1919 to 1932. Gandhi was sentenced to a six-year jail term. Three charges were imposed on Gandhi - 'tampering with loyalty', 'shaking the manes', and 'attempt to excite disaffection towards the British government'. Section 124 A in the Indian Penal Code, named 'Sedition', explains sedition in wide and magnanimous terms.

According to Section 26 of Civil Procedure Code of India, Every suit shall be instituted by the presentation of a complaint or in such other manner as may be prescribed and in every complaint, facts shall be proved by an affidavit.

Section 119 in The Indian Evidence Act, 1872:
Dumb witnesses — A witness who is unable to speak may give his evidence in any other manner in which he can make it intelligible, as by writing or by signs; but such writing must be written and the signs made in open Court. Evidence so given shall be deemed oral evidence.