Kerala PSC Expected Question in Legal Awareness: Set No -1

1. Who was the first Chairman of National Human Rights Commission?
Answer :- Js. Rangnath Mishra

2. A person who knowingly and voluntarily participates with another in a criminal activity:
Answer :- Accomplice


3. Release of a accused on finding that he is not guilty under criminal law:
Answer :- Acquittal

4. The person who makes and subscribes an affidavit.
 Answer :- Affiant

5. To take into custody by legal authority.
Answer :- Arrest

6. The name of a writ having for its object to bring a person before a court:
Answer :- Habeus Corpus

7. A voluntary, written, or printed declaration of facts, confirmed by oath of the party making it before a person with authority to administer the oath:
Answer :- Affidavit

8. The hearing of a dispute by an impartial third person or persons (chosen by the parties), whose award the parties agree to accept.
Answer :- Arbitration

9. A foreign-born person who has not qualified as a citizen of the country.
Answer :- Alien

10. A private, disinterested person chosen by the parties in arbitration to hear evidence concerning the dispute and to make an award based on the evidence.
Answer :- Arbitrator

11. The criminal offence of exhorting money with threats of detrimental action, as such exposure of some misconduct on the part of the victim:
Answer :- Blackmail

12. An agreement to stop war:
Answer :- Armistice

13. Concealing of objects by various means to deceive the enemy about their location and thereby protecting them from air and land attacks:
Answer :- Camouflage

14. Enquiry Commissions are appointed under the Commission of Enquiry Act of:
Answer :- 1952

15. Gestapo was the secret police in:
Answer :- Germany

16. In which prison the assassin of Mahathma Gandhi was hanged?
Answer :- Ambala

17. Indian Evidence Act was passed by the British Parliament in:
Answer :- 1872

18. The headquarters of INTERPOL:
Answer :- Lyons

19. The Governor General who organized Police Force in India for the first time:
Answer :- Cornwallis

20. The reduction of a sentence, as from death to life imprisonment.
Answer :- Commutation

21. Tranined IPS Officers will be posted for the first time as:
Answer :- ASP

22. The Prime Minister of India when CBI was created:
Answer :- Jawaharlal Nehru

23. The IPS Cadre is controlled by:
Answer :- Home Ministry of Govt of India

24. The offence of being disobedient or to be disrespectful of a court of law:
Answer :- Contempt of Court
25. The type of writ petition described as best assurance for human liberty:
Answer :- Habeus Corpus

26. Period of compulsory isolation or detention enforced against travellers not in possession of required health certificates:
Answer :- Quarentine

27. The social disgrace abolished by Article 17 of the Constitution:
Answer :- Untouchability

28. Regulation enjoining withdrawl of persons from the streets or the closing of establishments or places of assembly at a stated hour:
Answer :- Curfew

29. Lie detector is otherwise known as:
Answer :- Polygraph

30. An officer publicly authorised to certify deeds and documents:
Answer :- Notary Public

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