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प्रश्न
Consists of legal proposition(s)/ principle(s) (hereinafter referred to as 'principle') and facts. Such principles may or may not be true in the real and legal sense, yet you have to conclusively assume them to be true for the purposes of this Section. In other words, in answering these questions, you must not rely on any principle except the principles that are given herein below for every question.
Further, you must not assume any facts other than those stated in the question. The objective of this section is to test your interest in the study of law, research aptitude, and problem-solving ability, even if the 'most reasonable conclusion' arrived at may be absurd or unacceptable for any other reason. It is not the objective of this section to test your knowledge of the law.
Therefore, to answer a question, the principle is to be applied to the given facts and to choose the most appropriate option.
Principle: A violation of a legal right of someone, whether results in a legal injury or not, gives rise to an action in tort for compensation. At the same time, action by someone, which results in some loss or damage to somebody else is not actionable, if there is no violation of a right of that somebody.
Facts: AB Coaching Centre was a popular CLAT coaching academy with several good trainers. A lot of aspirants used to attend its coaching classes from all over and was making a good profit. This was going on for the past several years. During a session, T, one of the very good and popular trainers of ABCC, had some difference of opinion with the owner of ABCC and left the coaching centre. In August 2016, T started another Entrance Coaching Centre closer to ABCC which resulted in a substantial drop in its students and huge financial loss. The owner of ABCC wants to file a case against T for the loss sustained by ABCC. What do you think is the right legal position?
पर्याय
T will be liable to compensate for the loss to ABCC.
T has not violated any of ABCC's legal rights though they sustained some financial loss, and not legally bound to compensate ABCC.
'T' should have consulted ABCC before starting his coaching centre.
T started the new coaching centre near ABCC intentionally and shall be liable to compensate for the loss of ABCC.
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उत्तर
T has not violated any of ABCC’s legal right though they sustain ed some financial loss, and not legally bound to compensate ABCC.
Explanation:
T has not violated any of ABCC's legal rights though they sustained some financial loss, and not legally bound to compensate ABCC. Because of a difference of opinion between T and the owner of ABCC, T left working for ABCC. The coaching centre experienced financial loss after T opened another Entrance Coaching Centre closer to ABCC. None of this is a violation of a legal right of ABCC and there will be no compensation.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
In this Question problem consists of a set of rules and facts. Apply the specified rules to the set of facts and answer the question. In answering the following question, you should not rely on any rule(s) except the rule(s) that are supplied for problem. Further, you should not assume any fact other than 'those stated in the problem. The aim is to test your ability to properly apply a rule to a given set of facts, even when the result is absurd or unacceptable for any other reason. It is not the aim to test any knowledge of law you may already possess.
Rules A: The State shall not discriminate, either directly or indirectly, on the grounds of sex, race, religion, caste, creed, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, pregnancy, place of birth, gender orientation or any other status.
Rule B: Direct discrimination occurs when for a reason related to one or more prohibited grounds a person or group of persons is treated less favourably than another person or another group of persons in a comparable situation.
Rule C: Indirect discrimination occurs when a provision, criterion or practice which is neutral on the face of it would have the effect of putting persons having a status or a characteristic associated with one or more prohibited grounds at a particular disadvantage compared with other persons.
Rule D: Discrimination shall be justified when such discrimination is absolutely necessary in order to promote the well-being of disadvantaged groups, such as women, dalits, religious minorities, sexual minorities or disabled persons.
Facts:
On 2"° October 2010, the Governor of the state of Bihar ordered the release of all women prisoners who were serving sentence of less than one-year imprisonment to mark the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's birthday. Which of the following is correct with respect to the Governor's order?
Which of the following is correct with respect to the Governor's order?
For how long can the President's rule in a State-imposed initially?
The Chairman of Rajya Sabha is
The purpose of the Ilbert Bill was
A member elected to Lok Sabha as a candidate of a party crosses the floor of the House. In such a case,
Choose the most appropriate option:
The object of which one of the following writs is to prevent a person to hold public office which he is not legally entitled to hold?
Mark the best option:
Principle:
- Whoever, being a public servant, and being legally bound as such public servant not to engage in trade, engages in trade, shall be punished.
- Any officer serving in the Indian Forest Service (IFS) is barred from trading in timber.
Facts: Surya, an IFS officer was appointed as Assistant Conservator of Forests of the district of MP. After serving for a few years she came to know that his father owned a plot of land dotted with a good number of trees adjoining the highway and adjacent to an industrial complex in the same district. Surya wanted to sell this plot of land so he got the trees on the plot cut and decided to sell the timber thus obtained. While he was negotiating the price of timber with few interested parties; the police appeared on the scene and arrested him based on the information given by one of Surya's seniors.
What will be Surya's liability?
Legal Principle: Nothing is an ‘offence’ if committed by a child below seven years of age. Fact Situation: Adil, aged six years, is a student of class one. He placed his sharpened pencil on the bench with its pointed end up when his classmate Ajay stood up to answer a question from the teacher. Ajay gets hurt when he sits on the pencil and Adil and his friends have a good laugh. Ajay’s father, on seeing his son injured when he returns home, wants action against Adil.
Which of the following statements is the most appropriate in relation to the legal principle stated above?
World Intellectual Property Day Celebrated in
Mark the best option:
Principle: No person shall be deprived of his property save by authority of law.
Facts: The District Magistrate of Dastar district issued an order transferring all privately owned property within the two-kilometer range of the Kashti river in the district in the name of the state government for the purpose of converting the said area into an environmental green belt. The owners of the land filed a petition for quashing of the order under the principle. Will the petition succeed?
