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. Consider the following statements :

1. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 replaces the Persons with Disabilities
(Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995.

2. The Act increased the reservation for people with benchmark disabilities from 3% to 5% in
government jobs and from 3% to 4% in higher education institutes.

3. The Act provides for five per cent reservation in allotment of agricultural land and housing in
all relevant schemes and development programmes, with appropriate priority to women with
benchmark disability.

Which of the following statements given above is/are correct ?

A) 1 2 8) 2 3 C) 1 3 0) 1, 2 3

Consider the following statements :

1. The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act allows abortion to be done on the advice of one
doctor up to 20 weeks and two doctors in the case of certain categories of women between
20 and 24 weeks.

2. Termination is permitted only when continuance of the pregnancy would involve a risk to the
life of the pregnant woman, cause grave injury to her mental or physical health (including
rape and failure of birth control measures), or in the case of foetal abnormalities.

3. Termination is also allowed at any point during the pregnancy if there is an immediate
necessity to save the child's life.

Which of the following statements given above is/are correct ?

A) 1 2 8) 2 3 C) 1 3 0) 1, 2 3

Consider the following statements :

1. Any person who puts an advertisement for pre-natal and pre-conception sex determination
facilities in the form of a notice, circular, label, wrapper or any document or advertises through
interior or other media in electronic or print form or engagesin any visible representation made
by means of hoarding, wall painting, signal, light, sound, smoke or gas, can be imprisoned
for upto three years and fined Rs. 10,000.

2. The Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act of 1994 was Amended in
2020 to bring the technique of pre-conception sex selection and ultrasound technique within
the ambit of the Act.

3. Maharashtra is the first state to ban pre-natal sex determination through enacting the
Maharashtra Regulation of Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act.

Which of the following statements given above is/are correct ?

A) 1 2 8) 2 3 C) 1 3 0) 1, 2 3

Consider the following statements :

1. The NDPS Act is designed to fulfil India’s treaty obligations under the Single Convention on
Narcotic Drugs, Convention on Psychotropic Substances and United Nations Convention
Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances.

2. Section 37(1) of the NDPS Act states that an accused is not to be released on bail unless the
court has a reasonable ground to believe that the said accused is not guilty.

3. Under Section 37 of the NDPS Act, the burden is on the prosecution to show the existence
of reasonable grounds for believing that the accused is guilty.

Which of the following statements given above is/are correct ?

A) 18062 B) 2and3 ©) 18763 0) 1, 2810 3

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