HIGH COURT OF KERALA

KERALAJUDICIAL SERVICE MAIN (WRITTEN) EXAMINATION, 2020

Paper 1: General English

Duration: 3 Hours Total Marks: 100

(Questions 1 to 30 carry 1 mark each)

Correct the following sentences:

. A black and a white cow was grazing in the field.
2. The magistrate acquitted him from the crime.
3. He says that he will etum just now.
4. He was even blamed by his colleagues.
5. Everyone should mind one's own business.
6. Sam as well as Shyam are intelligent.
7. What is the cost of this pen?
8. Once close friends, they are now fast enemies.
9. Bear with me, there is no other alternative
10.This house is too much small for the large family.

(antaly Identify the miss spelt word in each set and correct it:

11.Twelth Cemetery Symmetry Sans

ll2.Aficionados furlough oPprobrium Disimulation
concessionire
M13.Rescind tranquillity tantrum
14.Procastination, heist, hygiene sleaze

15.Incendiary beleagured stodgy stocky

Use in sentences:
Tuelbo 16.Kick up a row

hot and cold

17.Blow
18.Quid pro quo
19.At a crossroads

20.Throw in the towel

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Substitute one word for the

following:
21.A remedy for all diseases.

22.Severe punishment for something seriously wrong that

somebody has done.
23.One who is unaffected by pain or
pleasure.
24.The belief that pleasure is the most
important thing in life.
25.A male member of a
religious order that originally relied on alms.
Give antonyms of the following words:-
26.Progressive
27.Pusillanimous
28.Reward
29.Encrypt
30.Spartan

(Questions 31 to 35 carry 2 marks

each)
Use the following pairs of words in separate sentences:
31.Cede recede
32.Privation Privateness
33.Prudence
34.Remission
Prudery
Remittance
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35.Critic
Critique
Write an
essay of about two pages on any two of the following: (15*2:30 Marks)
-

36.Recognizing the economic value of house work can pave the way to
Gender Justice.
37.Perfect' should not be enemy of "Good'.
38.India's Covid containment
strategy.
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39.Fom demographic dividend to
demographic burden.
40.Section 66 A of IT Act is a long-dead boar still
needs to be
menacingly grunting. It
completely buried.
41.The weaponization
of public discourse.
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42. Summarize the following into a passage of about one third of its length retaining the
essence of the passage:- (15 Marks)

indian law on extradition is spread across the Indian Penal Code as well as various
laws pertaining to narcotic drugs, information. Technology, hijacking, and so on.
Procedural laws have the Code of Criminal Procedure as their backbone but there
are other laws, too such as the Extradition Act, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances Act, the Prevention of Corruption Act, the Prevention of Money
Laundering, and so on.

In the absence of a coordinated database , and a well-integrated investigation and

prosecution mechanism, criminals can go undetected .The bulk of the investigation
and prosecution work happensatpolice stations in the States. While Central agencies
take up the important cases. Central agencies have developed reasonable expertise
because they are focused only on investigation and prosecution work, whereas State
police forces (except specialized wings) are engaged in law- and-order work as w
as investigations. There is a tendency to close investigations once the accused or
before closing investigations. It would be interesting to know
during interrogation
what proportion of arrest warrants obtained by investigation agencies of States

pertain to persons who have absconded or are 'wanted', whether within India or

and
abroad. Some police stations do initiate proceedings for attachment of property
declaration of the accused as proclaimed of fenders, but the number
of cases where
coordinated efforts made to pursue fugitives- domestically or internationally are
are
issued are of any
hardly documented. If the numbers of Red Cormer Notices
The
indication, only about 750 such criminals are wanted by Indian agencies.
number of Blue Corner Notices issued is about 300.

criminals worldwide through Interpol.

Theoretically there exists a system oftracking
different countries but there is
Notices and the sharing of immigration databases of
criminals or wanted persons
no coordinated system or database for tracking
It is relatively easy for criminals from
domestically In the absence ofsuch a sy stem.
.

in any other area, almost

one police station /jurisdiction
to melt into the population

undetected.

which could be accessible

The creation of a nationwide database of wanted persons,
and immigration authorities),
for police agencies, the public and others (like passport
Network and Systems arfd the
is imperative. The Crime and Criminal Tracking
but more integration is
National Intelligence Grid are efforts in the right direction,
desirable, Perhaps a nation-wide of 'Wanted Persons Not. Ilces', similar to
system
nterpol Notices, is required, to help track fugitives domestically, Countries like the
U.S have functional inter State extradition and fugitive tracking systems, India needs
to set up such dedicated 'fugitive tracking units'. There needs to be cnhanced
New
integration between immigration agencies. State police agencies, Interpol.
Delhi, the External A ffairs Ministry and Home Ministry and central investigation

agencies. Intelligence agencies also need to pool in.

'wanted' data base
plug loopholes is sharing its
or
Whal may also help india
basis or through treaties
providing access to it to foreign embassies on a reciprocal
or arrangements. All this will help detect possible plants
of criminals to abscond

abroad.
conventions on criminal matters
Signing of more bilateral and multilateral
on cooperation in
Would help plug legal infirmities. Signing bilateral agreements
relevant legal processes and requirements
policing matters would also help. All
into one consolidated law
should process and requirements should be incorporated
on international cooperation.

pertaining to fugitives, from investigation to

The entire gamut of activities
extradilion, needs to be incorporated into specialized set-up with an Integrated
a

International Cooperation Division (IICD) at the top. The iICD should have linkages
State level. This would ensure that
with proposed fugitive tracking units at the
are created. Making systems
requisite expertise and forward-and backward linkages
the law
watertight would deter criminals from hoodwinking

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