LAW OPTIONAL

Law Optional Strategy- Sparsh Gupta, Rank 562, CSE 2018   This post has been pending for a while. Due to my busy schedule, I could not pen it down earlier. Based on a lot of personal requests, as promised, here is the law optional strategy which I followed and was able to crack the coveted […]

Law Optional Strategy By Saumya Sharma, Rank – 9 UPSC CSE-2017 GS Strategy by Saumya Sharma Hello all. I am sharing my strategy for the law optional papers through this post. My seniors from college who are now in the IAS helped me quite a bit with the strategy, and I hope I can help […]

  LAW OPTIONAL STRATEGY Pratik Tayal , AIR 92 CSE 2016   Dear All,   Before I begin with my approach to the preparation, a brief introduction about me: I am Pratik Tayal and I secured Rank 92 in CSE 2016. I had completed my graduation from National Law University, Delhi in the year 2016 […]

LAW-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 35 ARCHIVES “Due to increasing penetration of international legal rules within the domestic systems, the distinction maintained between two autonomous zones of international and municipal law has been somewhat blurred.” Explain with special reference to Indian practice. How international legal rules emanating from customs and treaties, influence the actions […]

LAW-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 34 ARCHIVES Explain the ingredients of the offence of criminal misappropriation of property and distinguish this from criminal breach of trust. A sees Z drop his purse with money in it. A picks up the purse with the intention of returning it to Z, but afterwards appropriates it for […]

LAW-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 33 ARCHIVES Mr. A, a chronic heart patient was drawn into a political debate and in the course of the argument, his adversary looked at him fiercely and said that people like him should be hit till they are dead. Hearing this, A suffers from a heart attack and […]

LAW-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 32 ARCHIVES Discuss the law relating to criminal intimidation. Refer to case law. In what way is extortion different from criminal intimidation? What test has the SC prescribed to understand the “rarest of the rare cases theory” while inflicting capital punishment? Can one argue that capital punishment in any […]

LAW-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 31 ARCHIVES Discuss the principle of Res Ipsa Loquitor. Refer to recent cases.  “In order to constitute a public nuisance there must be an act or an illegal omission, and it is not necessary that the act should be illegal.” Explain the offence of public nuisance with the help […]

LAW-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 30 ARCHIVES Distinguish between common intention from abetment and criminal conspiracy. “Right of private defence is available only against offences.” Discuss. “Defence of volenti non fit injuria is not available when the rescuer is injured in an act of rescuing.” Discuss.

LAW-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 29 ARCHIVES ‘A’, with the intention of bringing Hash, a prohibited drug in India stealthily brought in his bag a cover believing that it contains Hash while coming from Bangladesh to India. While trying to sell the same to ‘B’, a dispute regarding its price arose. B grudgingly informed […]

LAW-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 28 ARCHIVES “The Indian Penal Code gives protection to one who does an act in good faith for the benefit of another.” Discuss.  “The Indian Penal Code extends protection to acts done by misfortune under certain circumstances.” Discuss. “Merely doing certain acts that would bring the Government established by […]

LAW-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 27 ARCHIVES “There may be an element of abetment in a conspiracy but conspiracy is something 2012 20/? more than an abetment.” Discuss with illustrations. The accused, one of the two joint owners of a shop, put her lock on the shop which was let out by another joint […]

LAW-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 26 ARCHIVES “The recent Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2011 seeks to replace ‘rape’ by the term ‘sexual assault’ in the IPC and intends to make rape a gender neutral offence in the country.” Examine whether this is appropriate. “The expression ‘good faith’ has a definite identity in the Indian […]

LAW-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 25 ARCHIVES “Plea bargaining, which was considered unconstitutional, illegal and tending to encourage complaint, collusion and pollution of the pure punt of justice, is now a part of sentencing under the Indian Criminal Law.” Comment Q refused to marry her boyfriend P, resulting into Ps depression. Mr. R, a […]

LAW-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 24 ARCHIVES “Involuntary drunkenness is a defence.” Critically examine the law relating to intoxication as defence.  Mr.X, the producer of a film showing life of ‘homosexuals’, is prosecuted under Section 292 of the Indian Penal Code, alleging that the film was obscene and indecent. The film 2013 25/? was […]

LAW-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 23 ARCHIVES “By evolving the concept of jurisdictional facts, the Courts have broadened the power of judicial review of administrative action.” Discuss this statement and compare the extent of judicial review for administrative action over jurisdictional facts and ordinary facts. 2. “The word ‘Voluntary’ as used in the Indian Penal […]

LAW-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 22 ARCHIVES Write a short note on: Indian ombudsman – unfulfilled dream 2. “By evolving the concept of jurisdictional facts, the courts have broadened the power of judicial review of administrative action.” Discuss this statement and compare the extent of judicial review of administrative action over jurisdictional facts and ordinary […]

LAW-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 21 ARCHIVES “The Directive Principles which have been declared to be fundamental in the governance of the country cannot be isolated from Fundamental Rights.” Explain critically. Also throw some reference to recent judgments on the Supreme Court’s view as regards the interplay of Directive Principles and Fundamental Rights. Spell […]

LAW-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 20 ARCHIVES Define and distinguish between ‘formal equality’ and ‘substantive equality’ as interpreted by the Apex Court of the country. How would you judge the constitutional validity of an Amendment giving primacy to the executive in the matter of appointment of the judges of the Supreme Court and High […]

LAW-2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 19 ARCHIVES Write a short note on “powers of Election Commission are not sufficient” Differentiate between ‘Federal Constitution’ and ‘Federal Government’. Based on judicial pronouncements and your perception of the working of our Constitution, comment on whether India has a ‘Federal Government’ or a ‘Federal Constitution’