Union & State Judiciary Of INDIA MCQs Set 10 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

Answer: (b)

A court of record is a court whose acts and proceedings are enrolled for perpetual memory and testimony. These records are used with high authority and their truth cannot be questioned.

In the Indian constitution article 129 makes the Supreme Court the ‘court of record”. Article 215 empowers the High Courts of the states to be courts of record.

Answer: (a)

The power of the Supreme Court of India to decide disputes between the center and the states falls under its original jurisdiction. The original jurisdiction of a court is the power to hear a case for the first time, as opposed to appellate jurisdiction when a court has the power to review a lower court’s decision.

In India, the Supreme Court has exclusive original jurisdiction on all cases between the government and the states or between government and states on the side and one or more states on the other side or cases between different states. In addition, Article 32 of the Constitution of India grants original jurisdiction to the Supreme Court on all cases involving the enforcement of fundamental rights of citizens.

Answer: (b)

Justice M. Fathima Beevi was the first woman judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court of India and the first Muslim woman to be appointed to any higher judiciary. She is the first woman judge of a Supreme Court of a nation in India and Asia.

Answer: (d)

The Calcutta High Court has the territorial jurisdiction over West Bengal, it is having circuit bench at Port Blair.

Answer: (b)

Supreme Court can only change its position in a case decided earlier by it where it considers for good and substantial reasons to overrule itself on an application if the need arises.