UG-CLAT entrance exam Question Bank Solutions for Legal Reasoning

Which of the following constitutions is a unitary constitution?

Which of the following is not a fundamental right in India?

Which of the following constitutions when framed did not provide for judicial review? 

Scheduled Tribe status is

Which of the following has not been a woman judge of the Supreme Court of India, till 2009?

The President of India is elected by an electoral college consisting of

Which of the following is not a fundamental right?

Answer the question which follows from application of the under mentioned legal principle.

Principle: Every person has a right of self-defense if his life is under imminent threat.

Facts: Mr. Prashanth threatens Mr. Krishna that he will kill Mr. Krishna. After saying so, Mr. Prashanth goes to his house saying that he would get his axe.

Answer the question which follows from the application of the under mentioned legal principle.

Principle: Right to carry on any occupation, trade or business is a Fundamental Right under the Indian Constitution. The State is under an obligation under the Directive Principles of State Policy to organize agriculture and animal husbandry on scientific lines, and towards that goal, take steps to prohibit cow slaughter.

Facts: The State of X passed legislation totally prohibiting cow slaughter. A, a butcher, trading in the meat of all animals including cows, challenged this legislation as violating the fundamental right to carry on his business.

Answer the question which follows from the application of the under mentioned legal principle.

Principle: The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion and expects the citizen to respect national anthem as a fundamental duty.

Facts: According to the religion's tenets of a particular sect, singing the praise of any entity other than God is forbidden. The child, belonging to that sect, refuses to sing national anthem in the course of school assembly, in which every child must compulsorily participate. When the disciplinary action was instituted against the child, the parents challenged the school' s order of singing the national anthem.

Answer the question which follows from the application of the under mentioned legal principle.

Principle: All citizens shall have the right to freedom of speech and expression.

Facts: X, a famous writer and Novelist criticized another novelist, B stating that: "the novel of B is foolish, he is a weak man, his Novel is indecent, his mind is impure, he is not of a good character, he should write decent and good Novel." Can X be sued for defamation? 

Answer the question which follows from the application of the under mentioned legal principle.

Principle: The law permits citizens to use force only for protection when necessary against imminent attack.

Facts: P with the intention of committing theft entered the house of Q. Q, on seeing him entering, struck him with a lathi and P fell down unconscious. Thereafter, Q gave him another blow of lathi on his head which caused his death. On being prosecuted for murder, Q took the plea of private defense. Which of the following argument is valid?

Answer the question which follows from the application of the under mentioned legal principle.

To whom, among the following, is the right of private defence is available?

1. Only to the defender being a preventive right
2. An aggressor, while facing action on the part of the defender which is excessive

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Answer the question which follows from the application of the under mentioned legal principle.

X' s farm house in outskirts of Delhi was attacked by a gang of armed robbers. X without informing the police, at first warned the robbers by firing in the air. As they were fleeing from the farm, he fired and killed one of them. At the trial–

I. X can avail the right of private defence as he was defending his life and property
II. X cannot avail the right as he failed to inform the police
III. X cannot avail the right as he caused more harm than was necessary to ward off the danger
IV. X can avail of the right as at first he only fires in the air.

Answer the question which follows from the application of the under mentioned legal principle.

Principle: Only Parliament or State Legislatures have the authority to enact laws on their own. No law made by the State can take away a person’s fundamental right.

Facts: Parliament enacted a law, which according to a group of lawyers is violating the fundamental rights of traders. A group of lawyers files a writ petition challenging the Constitutional validity of the statute seeking relief to quash the statute and further direct Parliament to enact a new law.

Answer the question which follows from the application of the under mentioned legal principle.

Principle: 
(1) The state shall not deny to any person equality before the law and equal protection of the laws within the territory of India.
(2) The State shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex and place of birth or any of them.

Facts: The Government of Rajasthan, passed an order providing for reservations for the Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes and Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (including Muslims), and Women, in all institutions of higher education, including private educational institutions, both aided as well as unaided, in the following manner: Scheduled Caste- 15%; Scheduled Tribe- 7.5%, Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (including Muslims) - 27%.

I. The reservation policy of the government is violative of the principle of equality envisaged in the Constitution
II. The reservation policy is unconstitutional because it is based on ‘caste’ which is a prohibited marker
III. Reservation does not violate equality clause as it entails “like should be treated like and unlike should be treated differently.”
IV. Reservation does not violate equality clause as the Constitution itself enables the State to make special provision for the advancement of socially and educationally backward classes of citizens or for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

The following questions consists of two statements, one labeled as ‘Assertion’ (A) and other as ‘Reason’ (R). You are to examine these two statements carefully and select the correct answers.

Assertion (A): The Indian Constitution was adopted on 26th November 1949.

Reason (R): Law Day is celebrated in India on 26th November every year. 

The following questions consist of two statements, one labeled as ‘Assertion’ (A) and other as ‘Reason’ (R). You are to examine these two statements carefully and select the correct answers.

Assertion (A): The state shall not make any law, which takes away or abridges the rights conferred by Part III (Fundamental Rights) and any law made in contravention of this clause shall, to the extent of the contravention, be void.

Reason (R): The fundamental rights are the rights reserved by the people and for this reason, they are eternal and sacrosanct.

The following questions consist of two statements, one labeled as ‘Assertion’ (A) and other as ‘Reason’ (R). You are to examine these two statements carefully and select the correct answers.

Assertion (A): Directive Principles of State Policy contained in Part IV shall not be enforceable by any court, but the principles therein laid down are nevertheless fundamental in the governance of the country and it shall be the duty of the State to apply these principles in making laws.

Reason (R): Directive Principles of State Policy and Fundamental Rights are both complementary to each other but in case of any controversy fundamental rights will prevail.

Assertion (A): The right to move the Supreme Court under Article 32 of the Constitution by appropriate proceedings for the enforcement of the fundamental rights is guaranteed as a fundamental right.

Reason (R): Supreme Court of India has been appointed as the guardian of the Constitution.