Multiple Choice QuestionsCountry’s first ‘visually-challenged friendly’ railway station is:
Mysuru.
New Delhi
Varanasi
Varanasi
Power to summon the Houses of the Parliament is vested with
President
Vice-President
Prime Minister
Prime Minister
PRINCIPLE: Every person is entitled to freedom of conscience and to profess, practice and propagate his religion subject to public order, morality and health.
FACTS: Abdul Karim Khan, of Muzaffarnagar, slaughtered a cow, in the name of religion. At that point of time, there existed an express prohibition on the slaughter of domestic and milch animals. His neighbors, Ram Deen and Alok Nath, who were Hindus, felt that Abdul’s act hurt their religious sentiments, and instituted a suit against him. Should Abdul be prosecuted for the slaughter of the cow?
PRINCIPLE 1: A person cannot claim damages for injury from a risky activity which he voluntarily undertook, knowing well the consequences that could arise from it, in the usual course of events.
PRINCIPLE 2: A master is liable to compensate for acts of his employees/servants done in the course of employment.
FACTS: There are two rival companies Tindal Steels Pvt Ltd (TSPL) and Jata Iron and Steel Co. (JISCO) that have their offices adjacent to each other. Both the companies provide bus services for their employees that are to be availed from the nearby bus depot. Both the companies have their separate buses. One day, Mr. Adhikary, an employee of TSPL, boarded the bus for JISCO employees by mistake. However, on the way home, the bus suffered an accident owing to the driver’s negligence, thereby causing injuries to a few employees. Can Mr. Adhikary claim compensation from JISCO for the injuries sustained?
PRINCIPLE: A person imposing total restraint on the liberty of another, thereby causing another to believe that his movement is curtailed, is guilty of false imprisonment.
FACTS: Shanaya and Cindy were amongst the finalists of the Miss India crown, and Cindy considered Shanaya to be her biggest rival. Before the Grand Finale of the competition, Cindy invited Shanaya to her house and locked her inside her storeroom. Now, the storeroom had another exit, behind the cupboard, however, Shanaya was unaware of the same. She sat and wept while Cindy won the crown. Later, she let Shanaya out. Is Cindy guilty for false imprisonment?
PRINCIPLE: The tort of defamation is said to be committed when a person causes injury to another’s reputation, in front of others, without any lawful justification.
FACTS: Kamal Kapoor read about the miraculous healing powers of Baba Shamdev in the newspapers, and decided to pay him a visit, in the hope that he would be able to cure his daughter, Kamala, of her sleepwalking. After weeks of treatments, involving a handsome fee taken by the Baba, and prescriptions of expensive medicines and powders that he claimed were made by him using special herbs, Kamala was not cured. Kamal was disappointed with the ineffectiveness of the treatment and heavy cost that he had to bear without any fruit, and wrote a letter to Baba Shamdev accusing him of being a cheat and a liar, and misrepresenting and defrauding people. Baba Shamdev handed over the letter to his lawyer, who filed a suit for defamation on his behalf. Will the suit succeed?
PRINCIPLE: If a person brings a potentially dangerous thing on his land for use, and if such thing escapes and causes damage, then the injured party can claim damages, provided that the ‘dangerous thing’ was harmful to the injured party in the usual course of events, not considering the escape.
FACTS: Pethalal is a member and the owner of the Goverdhan Housing Society, which a twelve storeyed building with thirty flats. He himself occupies the ground floor of the building with his wife and mother. Last month, he visited a trade fair in Germany where he came across a new model of a generator and decided to buy it for his building, since maintenance and upkeep of the building was his responsibility. He got the generator installed in his store room on the ground floor, and it was running well, as a result of which all the residents were also happy. One day the generator short-circuited, thereby damaging some of the electrical equipment of Mr. Bhinde, who lived on the first floor. Mr. Bhinde filed a suit against Pethalal and prayed that he be held liable for the damage caused, wholly and strictly. Will the suit sustain?
PRINCIPLE: An offer will be considered to be a valid offer only if a person intends for it to result in a binding legal obligation.
FACTS: Aaron is Melissa’s younger brother, and one day, on returning home exhausted, from his basketball tournament, asks his sister to bring him his protein shake from the kitchen. She refuses to do so. Then, he says- “If you bring me my protein shake, I’ll become your slave for a whole week”. She brings him the shake, and the next day demands that he mow the garden, take the dog out for a walk, cook, wash the car and take her out shopping. Aaron clearly refuses to do. Angered by this, Melissa decides to file a suit against her brother, claiming that he was her slave. Will she succeed?
PRINCIPLE: Time is the essence of a contract.
FACTS: Ghoshwal Woolens Ltd. is an apparel store in the small town of Bajipur. More than half the people in the town buy clothes from this shop, since it is well known for its quality and reliability. In the month of October, Mr. Ghoshwal, proprietor of Ghoshwal Woolens Ltd., entered into a contract with Mr. Basu, who agreed to supply a thousand pieces of woolen apparel, including sweaters, caps, mufflers and gloves, to the apparel store by November end. He was given half the amount as advance. However, Mr. Basu failed to supply the woolens within the given period and instead supplied it in the month of February. Mr. Ghoshwal accepted the stock, however since he couldn’t sell any of it, he asked Mr. Basu for reimbursement for the losses suffered by him. Is Mr. Ghoshwal entitled to compensation by Mr. Basu?
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