UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — HC raps U.P. police, says officers serve ‘political bosses’

Question 1

The Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, recently invoked in Rajendra Tyagi & Ors. v. State of U.P. before the Allahabad High Court, came into force in which one of the following years?

Accepted Answer

1986

Answer

1984

Answer

1988

Answer

1990

Question 2

In Prakash Singh v. Union of India (2006), the Supreme Court issued exactly how many binding directives to the Union and States for structural police reform, the non-implementation of which the Allahabad High Court invoked as background while rapping the U.P. police?

Accepted Answer

7

Answer

5

Answer

6

Answer

9

Question 3

With reference to the seven directives issued by the Supreme Court in Prakash Singh v. Union of India (2006), consider the following:
1. Constitution of a State Security Commission to insulate the police from political pressure.
2. Minimum tenure of two years for the Director General of Police.
3. Separation of investigation from law-and-order functions in urban areas.
4. Establishment of a National Police Service Board to decide transfers and postings of State police officers.
Which of the above is/are correctly identified as Prakash Singh directives?

Accepted Answer

1, 2 and 3 only

Answer

1 and 2 only

Answer

2, 3 and 4 only

Answer

1, 2, 3 and 4

Question 4

Under Section 2 of the U.P. Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986, the term 'gang' is most precisely defined as:

Accepted Answer

a group of persons who, acting either singly or collectively, by violence or threat or show of violence, indulge in anti-social activities to disturb public order or to gain any undue temporal, pecuniary, material or other advantage for themselves or any other person.

Answer

any group of three or more persons habitually engaged in cognizable offences punishable with imprisonment of seven years or more.

Answer

an organised criminal syndicate notified as such by the Central Government under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

Answer

any association of persons engaged in trafficking of narcotic drugs, arms or human beings across State borders.

Question 5

Under the U.P. Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986, the authority empowered to order attachment of property believed to have been acquired by a gangster is exclusively the:

Accepted Answer

District Magistrate of the district concerned.

Answer

Superintendent of Police of the district concerned.

Answer

Commissioner of Police, where the commissionerate system is in force.

Answer

Special Court constituted under the Act.

UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — HC raps U.P. police, says officers serve ‘political bosses’

Q1. The Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, recently invoked in Rajendra Tyagi & Ors. v. State of U.P. before the Allahabad High Court, came into force in which one of the following years?

Q2. In Prakash Singh v. Union of India (2006), the Supreme Court issued exactly how many binding directives to the Union and States for structural police reform, the non-implementation of which the Allahabad High Court invoked as background while rapping the U.P. police?

Q4. Under Section 2 of the U.P. Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986, the term 'gang' is most precisely defined as:

Q5. Under the U.P. Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986, the authority empowered to order attachment of property believed to have been acquired by a gangster is exclusively the: