Supreme Court, High Courts & Subordinate Judiciary Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Under which law was the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) set up?

Question 2

To be appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court a person must be a citizen of India and must also meet one of certain conditions. Which of the following is one of those conditions?

Question 3

By long-standing convention, who is appointed the Chief Justice of India?

Question 4

Who administers the oath of office to a Judge of the Supreme Court?

Question 5

What is the position regarding the number of Judges in a High Court?

Question 6

By whom is a Judge of the Supreme Court appointed?

Question 7

What does the writ of quo warranto do?

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About Supreme Court, High Courts & Subordinate Judiciary

This quiz is meant for students preparing for the IAS examination and other competitive tests, and for anyone who wants to understand how the courts of India are organised. It covers the whole judicial pyramid: the Supreme Court of India at the top, the High Courts in the States, and the subordinate or district courts below them, together with the ideas that hold the system up, such as judicial review, judicial independence, the collegium and the power of contempt. When complete it will have one hundred and twenty carefully checked questions, arranged in five packs of twenty-four.

Every question has four options, and the correct option can be in any position. After each question there is a detailed explanation of more than five lines, in simple Indian English that a school student can follow. The explanation gives the relevant Article of the Constitution, the important numbers such as the retirement ages of sixty-five and sixty-two years and the special majority for removal, and the leading cases that examiners like to test.

The questions cover the establishment and composition of the Supreme Court under Articles 124 to 130, the appointment, qualifications, tenure and removal of Judges, the collegium system and the striking down of the National Judicial Appointments Commission, the original, writ, appellate, advisory and review jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, Article 32 and the writs, the High Courts under Articles 214 to 231 with their writ jurisdiction under Article 226 and their power of superintendence under Article 227, the subordinate courts under Articles 233 to 237, tribunals under Articles 323A and 323B, and topics such as judicial activism, public interest litigation, Lok Adalats and the proposed All India Judicial Service.

A few questions carry a photograph of a court or Parliament building, only to set the scene; the picture never gives away the answer. Every fact has been checked against the bare text of the Constitution of India and standard reference books on Indian polity.