Indian Constitution 28

ഹൈക്കോടതി, ഇലക്ഷൻ കമ്മീഷൻ, ചീഫ് ഇലക്ഷൻ കമ്മീഷണർ എന്നിവരുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചോദ്യങ്ങളാണ് ഇന്നത്തെ പാഠത്തിൽ

• Indian High court Act was passed in

                1861 (Lord Canning)

• First High court in India was inagurated during the period of

                John Lawrence (1862, Calcutta, Bombay and Madras)

• Article deling with High court

                Article 214

• High court judges are removed by

                President (Same ground and manner of SC judge removal)

• Oath of High court judges are administrated by

                Governor of the state

• Retirement age of High court judges

                62

• Salaries and allowences of High court judges are charged upon

                Consolidated fund of the state

• Pension of High court judges are charged upon

                Consolidated fund of the India

• Highest court of appeal in the state

                High Court

• As per Article 226, writs of High court is

                Wider than that of Supreme court as it also for other purposes than fundamental rights

• No of High courts in India

                24

• Only Union territory having its own High court

                Delhi

• High court having most no of states under that

                Guwahati (4 states)

• Andaman Nicobar islands are under the jurisdiction of

                Kolkatta High court

• Oldest high court in India

                Kolkatta High court (1862)

• High court having most number of judges

                Allahabad High court

• First woman chief justice of High court

                Leila Seth (Himachal Pradesh)

• First woman to become judge of a High court

                Anna Chandi (Kerala) (First woman judge in Commonwealth countries)

• First woman Magistrate in India

                Omana Kunjamma

• First woman advocate in India

                Cornelia Sorabji

• First Indian to become judge of High court

                Sambhunath Pandit (1863, Calcutta)

• First Indian to become chief justice of High court

                PB Chakravarthi (1863, Calcutta)

• First Indian court to be powered by Solar energy

                Kunti District court (Jharkhand)

• First cyber forensic laboratory in India was set up in

                Tripura High Court (2013)

• Kerala High court started on

                1956 November 1 (At Eranakulam)

• Union territory which comes under Kerala High court

                Lakshadweep

• Present chief justice of Kerala High court

                Antony Dominic (2018 Feb 9 onwards)

• First chief justice of Kerala High court

                K T Koshi

• First woman chief justice of Kerala High court

                Sujatha Manohar

• First Malayalee woman chief justice of Kerala High court

                KK Usha

• First judge of Kerala High court to resign from office

                V Giri

• Chancellor of National University of Advanced Legal Studies

                Kerala High Court Cheif Justice

• Last formed High courts in India

                Manipur, Mekhalaya (25 March 2013), Thripura (26 March 2013)

• Article deling with Election Commission

                Article 324

• Study and scientific analysis of Elections is called

                Psephology

• Father of India Psephology

                Pranoy Roy

• Election Commission is a 

                Constitutional body

• Responsiblities of Election Commission

                Conducting elections to Parliament, State assemblies and to the offices of President and Vice president

• Election Commission came into force on

                25th January 1950

• National voters day

                25th January (2011 onwards)

• Election Commission consists of

                Chief election commissioner and two election commissioners

• Tenure of Election Commissioners

                6 years or 65 years of age

• General Election to the first Lok Sabha was held in India between

                25th October 1951 and 21st February 1952

• First voting in first general election was at

                Chini Taluk of Himachal Pradesh

• First voter in independent India

                Shyam Saran Negi

• For how many seats India's first Lok Sabha elction conducted

                489 (INC won 364 seats)

• Only one regional party to become main opposition party in Lok Sabha

                Telungu Desham Party

• Present (21st) Chief Election Commissioner of India

                Achal Kumar Jyoti

• Salary of Election Commissioners are equal to that of

                Judge of SC

• Who is responsible for issuing Voters list and giving acredition to political parties

                Election Commission of India

• Right to vote in India based on

                Universal adult franchise

• Article dealing with Universal adult franise

                Article 326

• First state to issue election identity cards to all voters

                Haryana

• First state to computerize all voters list

                Haryana

• First Chief election commissioner of India

                Sukumar Sen

• First Malayalee to become Chief election commissioner of India

                T N Seshan

• First woman chief election commissioner of India

                V S Ramadevi

• Shortest serving chief election commissioner of India

                V S Ramadevi

• Longest serving chief election commissioner of India

                KVK Sundaram

• Only Muslim chief election commissioner of India

                S Y Khureshi

• Voting age reduced to 18 from 21 by

                61st Constitution amendment act 1988

• Prime minister who reduced the voting age to 18

                Rajiv Gandhi

• Right to vote is a

                Legal right

• Election campaign should be stop

                48 Hrs before the poling

• Generally polling starts at

                7 am

• In charge of a polling booth is called

                Presiding officer

• Minimum vote required to get the deposit money back is

                1/6th of total vote

• Candidates submitting the nomination to

                Returning officer

• Present chief electoral officer of Kerala

                E K Majhi

• Chief election commissioner who introduced Photo identity cards 

                T N Sheshan

• Voter verified paper audit trial introduced as experimental in

                Nagaland Constituent assembly election 2013, Nokasen constituency

• Maximum possible constituencis from which a candidate can compete in election

                Two
                                                                                                  (To be Continued...)