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Fundamental and Human Rights

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This set of questions covers fundamental rights, human rights, and constitutional provisions like the Right against Exploitation. It also explores international declarations and individual liberties. These topics are frequently tested in UPSC and state PSC examinations.

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Fundamental and Human Rights Questions

Multiple choice

Which of the following rights is/are available to an enemy alien arrested under prevented detention law?

The following rights may be available to an arrested person:

(1) Right to choose a lawyer of his choice

(2) Right to communication

(3) Right to be produced before the judicial magistrate with in 24 hours

(4) Right to be reviewed by an advisory court headed by the chief justice

(5) Right against solitary confinement

  1. Only 5

  2. Only 2, 4 and 5

  3. Only 1 and 4

  4. No rights available to an enemy alien
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D Correct answer
Explanation

An enemy alien is not entitled to any rights provided to a person normally arrested. He can neither choose a lawyer of his choice nor he has any right to communicate. Also, he may be held in detention for a longer time.

Multiple choice

Article 26 of the constitution deals with

  1. prohibition of traffic in human beings and forced labour

  2. freedom to manage religious affairs

  3. compulsory aquisition of property

  4. protection of interests of miniorities
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Articles 25-28 of the constitution deal with the right to freedom of religion. Article 26 deals with right to manage religious affairs.

Multiple choice

Right to education was made a fundamental right under

  1. 73rd amendment 1992

  2. 74th amendment 1993

  3. 89th amendment 2003

  4. 86th amendment 2002
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The 86th constitutional amendment, making education a fundamental right, was passed by the parliament in 2002.

Multiple choice

Which of the following fundamental rights is suspended when a financial emergency is proclaimed in India?

  1. Right against arbitary arrest and detention

  2. Right to information

  3. Right to personal liberty

  4. No fundamental right is suspended
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Financial emergency is proclaimed when there is a threat to the credit of India. Fundamental rights are not suspended. However, salaries can be reduced and more taxes can be levied.

Multiple choice

Which Fundamental Right is available only to citizens?

  1. Right to equality

  2. Protection against arrest and detention

  3. Freedom of speech and expression

  4. Protection of life and personal liberty

  5. Protection of personal liberty
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Option (1) is incorrect: Right to equality is available to all the persons “citizens or non-citizens”. Option (2) is incorrect: Protection against arrest and detention is available to all the persons “citizens or non-citizens”. Option (3) is correct: The Fundamental Right available only to citizens is "freedom of speech and expression". Option (4) is incorrect: Protection of life is available to all the persons “citizens or non-citizens”. Option (5) is incorrect: Protection personal liberty is available to all the persons “citizens or non-citizens”. 

Multiple choice

Rights under Article 19 of the Constitution are available to

  1. citizens and non-citizens

  2. natural persons as well as artificial persons

  3. citizens only

  4. all persons who have juristic personality
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Option (1) is incorrect: Available to citizens, not to non-citizens Option (2) is incorrect: No such specific provision for Article 19 Option (3) is correct: Rights under Article 19 of the Constitution are available to citizens only. Option (4) is incorrect: No such specific provision for Article 19

Multiple choice

Consider the following rights:

  1. Right of self-determination
  2. Inherent right to life
  3. Freedom from torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
  4. Right to work and enjoyment of just and favourable conditions of work

Which of these rights have been recognised under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966?

  1. 1, 2, 3 and 4

  2. 1, 2 and 3

  3. 1 and 2

  4. 2 and 3
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Right of self-determination and inherent right to life are the rights that have been recognised under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966.

Multiple choice

Charter rights are not absolute. They may be overridden in limited circumstances where the

  1. government wishes to pass a law, which conflicts with the Charter using the 'notwithstanding' clause

  2. rights of an individual could be exercised to the detriment of the general public

  3. limitation is justified in a free and democratic society

  4. All of the above
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Charter Rights may be overridden in limited circumstances where the government wishes to pass a law, which conflicts with the Charter using the 'notwithstanding' clause, rights of an individual could be exercised to the detriment of the general public and limitation is justified in a free and democratic society.

Multiple choice

Consider the following statements:

The right of self-defence can be invoked by a state when

  1. it is attacked by the armed forces of another state
  2. it has reason to believe than an attack is imminent
  3. a civilian aircraft registered in that state is shot down by another state
  4. it has evidence of the effect that another state aids, recruits, trains and sends terrorists and mercenaries on a significant scale across the border into the territory of the former

Which of the above statements are correct?

  1. 1 and 2

  2. 2 and 3

  3. 1 and 4

  4. 3 and 4
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C Correct answer
Explanation

The right of self-defence can be invoked by a state when it is attacked by the armed forces of another state and it has evidence of the effect that another state aids, recruits, trains and sends terrorists and mercenaries on a significant scale across the border into the territory of the former.

Multiple choice

The main objective of the fundamental rights is to

  1. ensure individual liberty

  2. promote a socialistic pattern of society

  3. promote equality

  4. All of the above
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The main objective of the fundamental rights is to ensure individual liberty.

Multiple choice

Right to nationality, right to marry and right to find a family are the rights under

(i) women rights (ii) social and cultural rights (iii) civil and political rights (iv) inherent rights

  1. (i), (ii) and (iv)

  2. (ii), (iii) and (iv)

  3. (ii) and (iii)

  4. (iii) only
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organisations and private individuals, and which ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the society and state without discrimination or repression. Right to nationality, right to marry and right to find a family are the rights that fall under Civil and Political rights.

Multiple choice

Take and grant are two special _____.

  1. rights

  2. programmes

  3. modes

  4. none of these
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A Correct answer
Explanation

In the Take-Grant protection model, 'take' and 'grant' are specific rights that can be exercised between subjects and objects. These operations allow the transfer of access rights in a graph-based protection system. The model defines rules for how rights can propagate.