UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Judge facing threats over lynching verdict needs protection: HC

Question 1

Under Article 226 of the Constitution, a High Court is empowered to issue how many types of prerogative writs?

Accepted Answer

Five

Answer

Three

Answer

Four

Answer

Six

Question 2

In the Supreme Court's 2018 guidelines in Tehseen Poonawalla v. Union of India, the 'nodal officer' to be designated in every district for preventing mob lynching is:

Accepted Answer

A senior police officer (of the rank of Superintendent of Police)

Answer

The District Magistrate/Collector of the district

Answer

A judicial officer nominated by the High Court

Answer

The district public prosecutor

Question 3

Under which Article of the Constitution are district judges of a State appointed by the Governor in consultation with the High Court?

Accepted Answer

Article 233

Answer

Article 234

Answer

Article 235

Answer

Article 236

Question 4

The recruitment of persons other than district judges to the judicial service of a State is made by the Governor in consultation with which of the following?

Accepted Answer

The State Public Service Commission and the High Court

Answer

The Union Public Service Commission and the Supreme Court

Answer

The State Law Commission and the High Court

Answer

The State Public Service Commission and the Governor's Secretariat

Question 5

Administrative control — including the posting and promotion of judges of the district judiciary within Madhya Pradesh — is exercised by which of the following?

Accepted Answer

The Madhya Pradesh High Court

Answer

The Law and Legislative Affairs Department of the State Government

Answer

The Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission

Answer

The Governor of Madhya Pradesh

Question 6

Under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the specific offence of mob lynching is constituted when a group of at least how many persons, acting in concert, commits murder on grounds such as race, caste, community, sex, place of birth, language or personal belief?

Accepted Answer

Five

Answer

Three

Answer

Four

Answer

Seven

Question 7

The trial in the 2022 Seoni Malwa (Narmadapuram) cattle-transport lynching case, which culminated in the June 2026 verdict awarding life imprisonment, ran for approximately how many years before the conviction?

Accepted Answer

Three years

Answer

One year

Answer

Two years

Answer

Five years

UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Judge facing threats over lynching verdict needs protection: HC

Q1. Under Article 226 of the Constitution, a High Court is empowered to issue how many types of prerogative writs?

Q2. In the Supreme Court's 2018 guidelines in Tehseen Poonawalla v. Union of India, the 'nodal officer' to be designated in every district for preventing mob lynching is:

Q3. Under which Article of the Constitution are district judges of a State appointed by the Governor in consultation with the High Court?

Q4. The recruitment of persons other than district judges to the judicial service of a State is made by the Governor in consultation with which of the following?

Q5. Administrative control — including the posting and promotion of judges of the district judiciary within Madhya Pradesh — is exercised by which of the following?

Q6. Under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the specific offence of mob lynching is constituted when a group of at least how many persons, acting in concert, commits murder on grounds such as race, caste, community, sex, place of birth, language or personal belief?

Q7. The trial in the 2022 Seoni Malwa (Narmadapuram) cattle-transport lynching case, which culminated in the June 2026 verdict awarding life imprisonment, ran for approximately how many years before the conviction?