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Consider the following statements about Contempt of Court
How many of the statements given above are correct?
Solution (c)
Statement Analysis
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 | Statement 3 |
| Correct | Correct | Correct |
| Statutory Basis:
· When the Constitution was adopted, contempt of court was made one of the restrictions on freedom of speech and expression under Article 19 (2) of the Constitution of India. · Separately, Article 129 of the Constitution conferred on the Supreme Court the power to punish contempt of itself. Article 215 conferred a corresponding power on the High Courts. · The Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, gives statutory backing to the idea. |
· The Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 was a result of the recommendations made by the H.N. Sanyal Committee. The committee was tasked with examining the existing laws on contempt of court, and their report played a crucial role in shaping the legislation that governs contempt proceedings in India today. | · According to the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, contempt of court can either be civil contempt or criminal contempt.
· Civil contempt means wilful disobedience to any judgment, decree, direction, order, writ or other process of a court or wilful breach of an undertaking given to a court. · On the other hand, criminal contempt means the publication (whether by words, spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representations, or otherwise) of any matteror the doing of any other act whatsoever which · scandalises or tends to scandalise, or lowers or tends to lower the authority of, any court; or · prejudices, or interferes with, or tends to interfere with, the due course of any judicial proceeding; or · interferes or tends to interfere with, or obstructs or tends to obstruct, the administration of justice in any other manner. |
Context: The Allahabad High Court recently observed that orders issued by the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) under the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, are subject to appeal solely to the Supreme Court and not the High Court.
Solution (c)
Statement Analysis
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 | Statement 3 |
| Correct | Correct | Correct |
| Statutory Basis:
· When the Constitution was adopted, contempt of court was made one of the restrictions on freedom of speech and expression under Article 19 (2) of the Constitution of India. · Separately, Article 129 of the Constitution conferred on the Supreme Court the power to punish contempt of itself. Article 215 conferred a corresponding power on the High Courts. · The Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, gives statutory backing to the idea. |
· The Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 was a result of the recommendations made by the H.N. Sanyal Committee. The committee was tasked with examining the existing laws on contempt of court, and their report played a crucial role in shaping the legislation that governs contempt proceedings in India today. | · According to the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, contempt of court can either be civil contempt or criminal contempt.
· Civil contempt means wilful disobedience to any judgment, decree, direction, order, writ or other process of a court or wilful breach of an undertaking given to a court. · On the other hand, criminal contempt means the publication (whether by words, spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representations, or otherwise) of any matteror the doing of any other act whatsoever which · scandalises or tends to scandalise, or lowers or tends to lower the authority of, any court; or · prejudices, or interferes with, or tends to interfere with, the due course of any judicial proceeding; or · interferes or tends to interfere with, or obstructs or tends to obstruct, the administration of justice in any other manner. |
Context: The Allahabad High Court recently observed that orders issued by the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) under the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, are subject to appeal solely to the Supreme Court and not the High Court.
Consider the following statements about Wadge Bank
Choose the incorrect statement:
Solution (a)
Statement Analysis
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 |
| Incorrect | Correct |
| · The Wadge Bank is located near Cape Comorin and lies to the south of Kanyakumari.
· It has been identified by the Fishery Survey of India as a 4,000-sq-mile area and considered as India’s biggest fishery resource. · It lies within the exclusive economic zone of India and India have sovereign rights over the area and its resources. · The negotiations and the orders essentially settled the maritime boundary between India and Sri Lanka in 1974 by giving sovereign rights over a maritime patch called ‘Wadge Bank’ near Kanyakumari to India. |
· It is one of the world’s richest fishing grounds and in a much more strategic part of the sea than the island of Katchatheevu.
· The fishing vessels of Sri Lanka and persons on board these vessels shall not engage in fishing in the Wadge Bank. |
Context: It was in news.
Solution (a)
Statement Analysis
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 |
| Incorrect | Correct |
| · The Wadge Bank is located near Cape Comorin and lies to the south of Kanyakumari.
· It has been identified by the Fishery Survey of India as a 4,000-sq-mile area and considered as India’s biggest fishery resource. · It lies within the exclusive economic zone of India and India have sovereign rights over the area and its resources. · The negotiations and the orders essentially settled the maritime boundary between India and Sri Lanka in 1974 by giving sovereign rights over a maritime patch called ‘Wadge Bank’ near Kanyakumari to India. |
· It is one of the world’s richest fishing grounds and in a much more strategic part of the sea than the island of Katchatheevu.
· The fishing vessels of Sri Lanka and persons on board these vessels shall not engage in fishing in the Wadge Bank. |
Context: It was in news.
Consider the following statements about Tornadoes
How many of the statements given above are correct?
Solution (c)
Statement Analysis
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 | Statement 3 |
| Correct | Correct | Correct |
| · A tornado is a land-based vertical column of violently rotating air that forms from a thunderstorm to the ground.
· According to the National Weather Service (NWS) of the United States, it can have wind speeds in the range of 105-322 kilometres per hour. |
· Tornadoes are the most common in the United States, Argentina and Bangladesh.
· In India, there is no official monitoring of tornadoes. · Tornadoes require warm, humid air and a triggering rotation. When cool northeast winds intersect with warm, moist ocean air, tornadoes can form. · The weak background winds during the pre-monsoon season, allow tornadoes to persist and lower speeds of vertical winds, which allow them to grow.s |
· The system itself can be stationary or can move at a speed of round 97 km / hr.
· These extreme storms are rare in India and have mostly been reported in the eastern states of West Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand during the pre-monsoon period. · There is also evidence of some of them having formed in northwest India as well. |
Context: Recently a deadly tornado struck the Mainaguri area of Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal for 10 minutes that killed 5 people and injured over a 100.
Solution (c)
Statement Analysis
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 | Statement 3 |
| Correct | Correct | Correct |
| · A tornado is a land-based vertical column of violently rotating air that forms from a thunderstorm to the ground.
· According to the National Weather Service (NWS) of the United States, it can have wind speeds in the range of 105-322 kilometres per hour. |
· Tornadoes are the most common in the United States, Argentina and Bangladesh.
· In India, there is no official monitoring of tornadoes. · Tornadoes require warm, humid air and a triggering rotation. When cool northeast winds intersect with warm, moist ocean air, tornadoes can form. · The weak background winds during the pre-monsoon season, allow tornadoes to persist and lower speeds of vertical winds, which allow them to grow.s |
· The system itself can be stationary or can move at a speed of round 97 km / hr.
· These extreme storms are rare in India and have mostly been reported in the eastern states of West Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand during the pre-monsoon period. · There is also evidence of some of them having formed in northwest India as well. |
Context: Recently a deadly tornado struck the Mainaguri area of Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal for 10 minutes that killed 5 people and injured over a 100.
Consider the following statements about Sea of Japan
Choose the correct statement:
Solution (a)
Statement Analysis
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 |
| Correct | Incorrect |
| · It is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean.
· It is located in Eastern Asia and is bounded by Japan and Sakhalin Island to the east and by Russia and Korea on the Asian mainland to the west. · The sea itself lies in a deep basin, separated from the East China Sea to the south by the Tsushima and Korea straits and from the Sea of Okhotsk to the north by the La Perouse (or Sōya) and Tatar straits. · To the east, it is also connected to the Inland Sea of Japan by the Kanmon Strait, and to the Pacific by the Tsugaru Strait. · It influences the climate of Japan because of its relatively warm waters. · It serves as the meeting point of the cold currents from the north and the warm currents from the south. |
· Mauna Loa is the largest active volcano on the planet. Meaning “long mountain” in Hawaiian, it is the quintessential shield volcano in its shape— signified by broad, rounded slopes. The volcano makes up roughly 51% of Hawaiʻi Island and stands 13,681 feet (4,170 m) above sea level. |
Context: North Korea recently fired a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea.
Solution (a)
Statement Analysis
| Statement 1 | Statement 2 |
| Correct | Incorrect |
| · It is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean.
· It is located in Eastern Asia and is bounded by Japan and Sakhalin Island to the east and by Russia and Korea on the Asian mainland to the west. · The sea itself lies in a deep basin, separated from the East China Sea to the south by the Tsushima and Korea straits and from the Sea of Okhotsk to the north by the La Perouse (or Sōya) and Tatar straits. · To the east, it is also connected to the Inland Sea of Japan by the Kanmon Strait, and to the Pacific by the Tsugaru Strait. · It influences the climate of Japan because of its relatively warm waters. · It serves as the meeting point of the cold currents from the north and the warm currents from the south. |
· Mauna Loa is the largest active volcano on the planet. Meaning “long mountain” in Hawaiian, it is the quintessential shield volcano in its shape— signified by broad, rounded slopes. The volcano makes up roughly 51% of Hawaiʻi Island and stands 13,681 feet (4,170 m) above sea level. |
Context: North Korea recently fired a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea.
Bhojshala Complex, sometimes seen in the news, is located in?
| Option d |
| Correct |
| · Bhojshala complex, is a historical site contested by both Hindus and Muslims in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district.
· The Bhojshala complex, an 11th-century structure protected by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), holds significance for both communities. · Hindus revere it as a temple dedicated to Vagdevi (Goddess Saraswati), while Muslims refer to it as Kamal Maula Mosque. · As per an arrangement established by the ASI on April 2003, Hindus conduct pujas on Tuesdays, while Muslims offer namaz on Fridays within the premises. |
Context: Recently the Supreme Court refused to stay the ongoing ‘scientific survey’ of Bhojshala Complex and directed that no physical excavation should be done which could alter the appearance of the structure.
| Option d |
| Correct |
| · Bhojshala complex, is a historical site contested by both Hindus and Muslims in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district.
· The Bhojshala complex, an 11th-century structure protected by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), holds significance for both communities. · Hindus revere it as a temple dedicated to Vagdevi (Goddess Saraswati), while Muslims refer to it as Kamal Maula Mosque. · As per an arrangement established by the ASI on April 2003, Hindus conduct pujas on Tuesdays, while Muslims offer namaz on Fridays within the premises. |
Context: Recently the Supreme Court refused to stay the ongoing ‘scientific survey’ of Bhojshala Complex and directed that no physical excavation should be done which could alter the appearance of the structure.
