CUSAT CAT LL.M. 2012 Question Paper with Answers

According to Oppenheim, International law is essentially a product of

Direction: Match the List I with List II and choose the correct combination.

Read the following passage and answer the question.

As a place where any significant fraction of a country's population is expected to live, as a normal habitat for human life, the giant city, the urban concentration larger than a half million, let us say, is a very late arrival in human history. Before the mid-nineteenth century an overwhelming number of people in every country, including countries thought to be "modern", lived in towns and villages. The chances are really quite overwhelming that not one of your great grandfathers was born in a large city. Even today, in practically every country, big city-dwellers constitute a minority.

Because the very recent phenomenon of the giant city has made it a symbol of modernisation and modernity, particularly for developing countries, visions of a society with few, if any, giant cities are typically brushed off as nostalgic evocations of an irrecoverable past. Yet the "modernity" of the giant city derives from the age of industrialisation, not from the more recent age of late or post-industrialisation. In post-industrial society, the giant city becomes an obsolescent, unnecessary and crippling habitat that persists less because of need than from inertia, a failure of imagination and audacity.

So much is the giant city an elephantine perversion of the city that we have no suitable name for it. As if to mock us, the Latin roots of the word "city" remind us of what is most lacking in the giant city: citizenship; while the origins of the term "metropolis" convey a meaning precisely opposed to present usage. Literally metropolis means mother city (from the Greek "metre", a mother, and "polis", a city). Unlike us, the ancient Greeks assumed that no decent city should be permitted to grow indefinitely. A large city would outstrip its own resources, become unwieldy and ill-proportioned, inconvenient, an unfit place for living, a habitat that must inevitably reduce citizens, who might hope to know their city and one another well, into anonymous inhabitants each dominated by his own private concerns and lacking common goals or interests - no true city, then no "polis", but a mere heaping up of people and buildings. To avoid this catastrophe was both desirable and possible. The "polis" invited its citizens, not least its youth, to join in establishing a new "polis". So the original city gave birth to the new, and the original thus became the mother city, a metropolis. Thus cities of human proportion could be built and preserved.

According to the passage, the concept of the giant city is

Arrange the given sentences in a logical sequence.

1. The MLAs urged the CM to initiate penal action against officers responsible for fake encounters, illegal detentions under the garb of containing terrorism in the state.
2. A large number of MLAs took exception to the rampant corruption in the police force which became more pronounced during the period when the police gained upper hand over the militants.
3. Some MLAs claimed to have identified as many as 20,000 policemen who had acted in an extra-constitutional manner to create a counter terror in the state.
4. They charged that because of free hand given by the previous government, police officers misused their absolute power.

Arrange the following rights in the order they appear in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
1. Right to peaceful assembly
2. Right against torture
3. Right against slavery
4. Right to life

International Law is weak law because

Under which article of the Indian Constitution is the directive that the State shall strive for a Uniform Civil Code provided?

The President is required to act in accordance with the advice tendered by the Council of Ministers under

The "Budget" is provided for in the Indian Constitution as

When an expenditure of the Central government is said to be "charged", it means

Replace the underlined word with a synonym.

He reached a reasonable level of competence in English.

Which of the following combinations regarding the Constituent Assembly is incorrect?

Which of the following are Constitutional bodies?
1. National Commission for Minorities
2. National Commission for Women
3. National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
4. Finance Commission

Which of the following statements about Indian Constitutional Law is correct?

Which of the following statements is valid?
I. The Indian Parliament enjoys constituent powers.
II. The Indian Parliament can amend any and all Articles without any restriction.

Read the two statements I and II under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS, which replaced the Cr.P.C.) and choose the correct answer
I. A criminal charge may be disposed of without a full trial.
II. Any private person can arrest without a warrant under certain circumstances.

Wages under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (since subsumed in the Industrial Relations Code, 2020) included
1. contribution paid by employer to provident fund
2. travelling concession
3. commission paid on promotion of sales
4. value of medical attendance

Under the now-repealed Factories Act, 1948 (subsumed in the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020)
1. manufacturing process did not include storing any article in cold storage.
2. a person employed for cleaning the premises used for manufacturing was not a worker.
3. a person employed in the manufacturing process without the knowledge of the principal employer was not a worker.

Under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (since subsumed in the Industrial Relations Code, 2020), identify the matters that did not fall within the jurisdiction of the Labour Court
1. Rules of discipline
2. Withdrawal of any customary concession or privilege
3. Leave with wages and holidays
4. Hours of work and rest intervals

Article 14 of the Indian Constitution embodies the