Q 1 – Who among them represent the interests of the State?
(a) Judge
(b) Police
(c) Lawyer
(d) Public Prosecutor
Q 2 – The subordinate court is more commonly known by many different names except
(a) Additional Sessions Judge
(b) Apex court
(c) Chief Judicial Magistrate
(d) Trial Court or the Court of the District Judge
Q 3 – A criminal offence is regarded as
(a) Public wrong
(b) Public welfare
(c) Private wrong
(d) Public safety
Q 4 – Four key players in the criminal justice system are
(a) the police, the politician, the defence lawyer and the judge
(b) the police, the Politician, the government and the judge
(c) the police, the Public Prosecutor, the defence lawyer and the judge
(d) the police, the Public Prosecutor, the government and the judge
Q 5 – Which is not the responsibility of the public prosecutor?
(a) To represent the interest of the state.
(b) Also represents the interest of the witness.
(c) Has to act impartially
(d) The prosecutor must conduct the prosecution
Q 6 – The police officials who carry out the arrest or interrogation should
(a) Wear visible identification and name tags
(b) Have qualifying certificate with them
(c) Wear clean uniform
(d) Wear identification without name tag but with designation
Q 7 – Which is not applicable in Open court?
(a) The police cannot be present during the proceedings.
(b) What is held in the presence of the accused
(c) People can see the whole proceedings
(d) Hearing of the case in front of viewers
Q 8 – This refers to the court declaring that a person is not guilty of the crime which he/she was tried for by the court
(a) Accused
(b) Acquit
(c) Impartial
(d) Violation
Q 9 – Why did Sub-inspector Rao kept Sushil in the police custody for two days?
(a) The police forcibly kept Sushil in custody. He was not presented with a memo.
(b) Sushil was abused.
(c) They forcibly tried to extract a confession from him.
(d) He was beaten.
Q 10 – What are the importance of the court of law in our legal system?
(a) Provide Documents
(b) Provide Justice
(c) Provide Wealth
(d) None of these
Q 11 – When we see someone violating the law, we immediately think of informing the
(a) Police
(b) Judge
(c) Court
(d) Lawyer
Q 12 – What is an Offence?
(a) Act defines as relief
(b) Act defines as punishment
(c) Act defines as a Crime
(d) None of these
Q 13 – Which of the following is not mention in the four players in criminal justice system?
(a) Police
(b) Villagers
(c) Judge
(d) Defence lawyer
Q 14 – PIL stands for
(a) Public Interest Litigation
(b) Public Interest Law
(c) Private International Litigation
(d) Private Interest Legal
Q 15 – What are civil cases?
(a) Cases of private right
(b) Cases of crime offence
(c) Cases of Parliament
(d) None of these
Q 16 – What term refers to a person who is tried by a court for a crime?
(a) Accused
(b) Lawyer
(c) Detention
(d) Fair trial
Q 17 – At the top is the ________ that is located in New Delhi
(a) District Court
(b) Supreme Court
(c) High Court
(d) Subordinate Court
Q 18 – High Courts were first established in which of 3 presidency cities?
(a) Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
(b) Punjab, Gujarat , Rajasthan
(c) Calcutta, Madras, Bombay
(d) Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya
Q 19 – According to the Constitution, every individual charged of a crime has to be given a
(a) Crime trial
(b) Long trial
(c) Abused trial
(d) Fair trial
Q 20 – What is the act of keeping the accused in custody by the police?
(a) Cross-examine
(b) Detention
(c) FIR
(d) All of these
Q 21 – Right to food include
(a) All people of the country distributed food free
(b) All people should get food
(c) Rich have right to food
(d) No one should be hungry
Q 22 – What is the type of the advocate who pleads the cases on behalf of the government and who has been appointed by the government on permanent basis?
(a) Public prosecutor
(b) Private prosecutor
(c) Deed writer
(d) Typist
Q 23 – Under which Article of the Constitution every person has the Fundamental Right to be defended by a lawyer.
(a) Article 35
(b) Article 35a
(c) Article 22
(d) Article 27
Q 24 – What do you mean by Cognizable?
(a) Police can arrest the person only after the permission of the magistrate
(b) Police can arrest a person only after the permission of the court
(c) A charge or crime for which the police is entitled to arrest a person without seeking permission of the court
(d) The police cannot arrest a person on any condition.
Q 25 – This refers to money given to make amends for an injury or a loss.
(a) Appeal
(b) Compensation
(c) Acquit
(d) Eviction
Q 26 – What do you mean by Bail?
(a) Payment for relief from punishment
(b) Money for closing of case
(c) Security for appear in the court
(d) None of these
Q 27 – Match the following:
| Column-I | Column-II |
| 1. Prosecutor | (a) Player in the criminal justice system. |
| 2. Art 39A | (b) Cognizable offence |
| 3. The Public Prosecutor | (c) on behalf of the state |
| 4. FIR | (d) State provides lawyer |
Q 28 – Fill in the blanks:
1. The judge hears all the witnesses and any other ……………………… presented by the
……………………… and the defence.
2. The ……………………… and the law both state the every person should carry out their roles in a proper manner.
3. It was the responsibility of the ……………………… to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Shanti was not guilty.
4. The FIR also states the name and address of the ……………………… .
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