Uttarakhand Civil Judge 2023 Mains: question paper

Uttarakhand Judicial Service Civil Judge (Junior Division) Main Examination papers printed 2023: Language, The Present Day, Law I, Law II and Law III

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Uttarakhand Public Service Commission

Marking (as printed)

Written (descriptive) papers, 3 hours each: The Present Day 150 marks; Law I (Substantive Law), Law II (Evidence and Procedure) and Law III (Revenue and Criminal) 200 marks each; Language 100 marks. Questions are printed in Hindi and English.

One official file of 30 pages: the five main papers printed with the year 2023 (Language with code CJL, The Present Day, Law I, Law II, Law III) on pages 1 to 26, followed by the 2022 Language paper on pages 27 to 30. What the papers asked, in brief. Language: English to Hindi court-language translation (costs and compensatory costs), Hindi to English translation, and a title and precis of a passage on public interest litigation and locus standi; the 2022 Language paper used passages on extra-judicial confessions and on reading a statute as a whole. The Present Day: stare decisis, status to contract, asylum and extradition, recognition, diplomatic immunities, the International Court of Justice, NALSA, Panchayats, due process under Article 21 and the NJAC judgment. Law I: consideration, lessor and mortgagee, spes successionis, Hindu divorce and succession, pious obligation, pre-emption, bailment, Muslim inheritance (aul and radd), waiver of the waiting period after the Constitution Bench divorce ruling, partnership, novation, vicarious liability, hiba and trusts. Law II: a plaint and written statement in a suit for execution of a sale deed, charges and a judgment in a dowry cruelty case, res judicata, amendment of pleadings, attachment before judgment, suits by or against the government, representative suits, presumptions on dowry death, character evidence and alteration of charge. Law III: tenure-holders, succession and mutation under the U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, the Mines Tribunal, land revenue, and IPC topics such as common intention, insanity, necessity, private defence, voyeurism, wrongful confinement and culpable homicide.

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