All 124 BLS LLB Sem 9 Question Papers Are Now Solved, and Updated to Current Law

Semester 9 of the five year law course is now complete on munotes. Every previous year question paper we hold for it, 124 papers running from November 2010 to April 2026, has been worked out in full. Between them they carry 2,961 model answers.

This is a finished job, not a work in progress. Not a sample of the recent years, not the popular subjects only: all 124 papers, across all five subjects, solved. Each answer is written to the marks its question carries. Each one states the law as it stands today rather than the law in force when the paper was set, and in Semester 9 that second point does a great deal of work, because the criminal law, the labour law and the limitation rules behind these papers have all moved since 2019.

Below is what is on the shelf, and what we found when we counted it: how often the same topic comes back, the two changes to the exam pattern, and the statutes that have shifted under the questions. Every number here is measured from the live pages, and you can check each one yourself.

The short version

• 124 papers, 124 solved. Five subjects, November 2010 to April 2026, 2,961 answers.
• Every question in every paper is answered, not only the minimum the paper asks you to attempt. The choice you make in the hall is not the choice the next student makes.
• About 38 in every 100 questions sit on a topic that has already been asked. In BNSS and CrPC it is nearly half.
• "Plea bargaining" has been set 16 times in this semester. "Interpleader suit" 13 times. "Pacta sunt servanda" 10 times.
• The exam pattern changed twice. 78 of the 124 papers are the old 100 mark pattern, 32 are 60:40, and 14 are 75:25. Since 2024 two different papers can be set at one sitting.
• The law moved under these papers. The CrPC was replaced on 1 July 2024. Two labour Codes came into force on 21 November 2025 and repealed 22 Acts. Our answers state the law as it stands today and say so where the paper's own law has gone.
• The shelf keeps growing. New papers go up after each exam season and are solved the same way as the rest, and answers are restated when the law behind them changes.

What is on the Sem 9 shelf

Five subjects. Here is the whole semester, counted from the live pages on 29 September 2026.

The busiest years are recent ones: 15 papers from 2025, 12 from 2024, 12 from 2019. That is not an accident of collecting. It is the two paper sittings, which we come to below.

What "solved" means on munotes

The word "solved" is used loosely on the internet, so here is exactly what it means on these pages.

Every question is answered, not just the compulsory ones. A Sem 9 paper typically prints 22 or 23 questions and asks you to attempt about half. We answer all of them, because the six short answers you pick are not the six the next student picks.

Each answer is written to the marks. A 2 mark answer and a 13 mark answer on the same section are different answers, not the same answer cut short. Where the same question has been set at two different mark weights, it is written twice.

These are model answers, not an official key. The University of Mumbai does not publish an answer key for these papers, and we say so at the top of every volume. Our answers show how a full mark answer is built. They are a study aid, not a record of what an examiner marked.

The question paper itself is the paper as set. We reproduce the paper, including its own spelling mistakes, and note the printer's form number so you can match it against your college copy.

Nearly 4 in 10 questions have been asked before

This is the finding that should change how you revise.

We took the question stem from all 124 papers, stripped the instruction word off the front, so that "Explain plea bargaining", "Write a short note on plea bargaining" and "Discuss plea bargaining" count as the same topic, and counted how often each topic comes back. We could compare 2,874 of the 2,961 stems. The rest were too short to match safely.

Labour Law is low for one reason only: it has three papers, so almost nothing has had the chance to come back yet. Ignore its percentage. The other four are the real picture.

The heaviest repeaters, counted across the whole semester:

Read that table again. Plea bargaining has been set sixteen times in one semester's papers. If you walk into the BNSS paper without a written answer for plea bargaining, you have ignored the clearest signal the University has given you.

The honest caveat: a repeated topic is not a guaranteed question, and the same topic is often set at a different mark weight or with a different instruction. A topic asked as a 2 mark short answer one year can come back as a 13 mark essay. That is exactly why each volume writes it twice.

The pattern changed twice, and it is still changing

Papers from 2010 to about 2022 are one stable 100 mark pattern. Then the semester splits.

Two things follow from this, and most students get both wrong.

First, check which pattern your college follows before you time a mock. A 60:40 paper and a 75:25 paper on the same subject are different papers, with different section counts and different time. Our pages label every paper with its pattern in the title, so you are never guessing.

Second, since 2024 two different papers are set at one sitting. In April 2026, CPC has both a 60:40 paper and a 75:25 paper. So does Public International Law. So does the criminal paper. If you practise only the one you found first, you have practised the wrong half of the sitting. Both are on the shelf, both solved.

Do not throw away the old 100 mark papers. They are 78 of the 124, and they are where the repeated topics were first set. The pattern changed. The syllabus largely did not. A 2014 question on interpleader suits is still teaching you interpleader suits.

The law moved under these papers

This is the part that a scanned solved paper from a senior cannot do for you, and it matters more in Sem 9 than in any other semester.

A question set in 2019 was answered correctly in 2019 under law that has since been repealed. Copy that answer into a 2026 exam and you are quoting a dead statute. Every volume on this shelf opens with a note saying what has changed in that subject and how the answers handle it. Here is what those notes cover.

• BNSS and CrPC. The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 repealed the Code of Criminal Procedure on 1 July 2024, although cases begun before that date still run under the old Code. Both CrPC papers and BNSS papers sit in this one folder. Each volume says which Code its paper was set on and answers on that Code, and tells a reader preparing for the Sanhita to check every section number and every time limit. Two things are corrected quietly throughout: where a printed header still names the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000, repealed on 15 January 2016, the answers are on the Act of 2015 as amended in 2021.
• CPC. Section 89, on settling a suit outside court, was replaced outright by Schedule IV to the Mediation Act, 2023. The Supreme Court's order of 10 January 2022 excluded 15 March 2020 to 28 February 2022 from every period of limitation, which is enough to reverse the answer to a problem in this folder, and that answer works both figures so you can see why. Adverse possession became a sword as well as a shield in 2019, and it is set in four of these papers. The United Arab Emirates was notified a reciprocating territory under Section 44A in January 2020.
• Interpretation of Statutes. Section 27 of the General Clauses Act, 1897, on service by post, is the most examined provision in this subject. The Repealing and Amending Act, 2025 replaced "registered post" in it with "speed post with registration" from 20 December 2025, so every textbook printed before 2026 states the old words.
• Labour Law and Industrial Relations II. Both Codes were passed in 2020 and came into force only on 21 November 2025, which is after the November 2024 paper was sat. Between them they repealed 22 Acts, including the Employee's Compensation Act 1923, the ESI Act 1948, the EPF Act 1952, the Maternity Benefit Act 1961, the Payment of Gratuity Act 1972 and the Factories Act 1948. Notes printed before 2026 teach repealed statutes.
• Public International Law and Human Rights. The Protection of Human Rights (Amendment) Act, 2019 lets a Judge of the Supreme Court chair the National Human Rights Commission, and cut the term from five years to three. Sedition is now section 152 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, with its own saving for criticism of the government. On 21 March 2024 the Supreme Court recognised a right against the adverse effects of climate change under Articles 14 and 21.

Where a question turns on a provision that has since changed, the answer gives the position as it then stood and the position today, and says which is which. You are never left guessing which half of the answer is current.

Labour Law and Industrial Relations II has only three papers

We would rather say this plainly than let you discover it halfway through your revision.

This subject has three papers on the shelf: November 2024, December 2025 and April 2026, all on the 75:25 pattern. All three are solved, 65 answers between them. There is no deep archive here, because the subject in its present form is new and the Codes behind it only came into force on 21 November 2025.

For this one subject, previous year papers cannot carry your revision on their own. Use the three we have to learn the paper's shape and the examiner's habits, and lean on the syllabus and the notes for coverage. If the University sets more, they go on the shelf after the season.

How to actually use 124 papers

Having 124 papers is only useful if you have a method. Here is the one we would follow, in order.

1. Start with the newest paper of your pattern, and sit it cold. No notes, no phone, full time. You need a real score before you plan anything. The paper and its whole question list open without an account.
2. Mark yourself against the model answers. Not to feel bad about the score, but to see the shape of a full mark answer: the section it opens with, the authority it cites, the order it argues in.
3. Build your repeat list first. Take the topics in the table above for your subject, plus anything set twice in the last five years, and write those answers out by hand before you touch anything else. That is roughly 38 out of every 100 marks addressed before you start on new ground.
4. Then work backwards, one sitting a day. Newest to oldest. By the fourth or fifth paper you will start recognising stems, which is the point.
5. Do both papers of a recent sitting. If your year has a 60:40 and a 75:25 for your subject, do both. It takes one extra session and removes the worst surprise in the hall.
6. Check the currency note before you memorise anything from a pre 2024 paper. Criminal law, labour law and limitation have all moved. The note at the top of each volume tells you where.

How to open a solved paper

Open the subject folder and pick the sitting you want. The paper appears with its complete question list typed out beneath it, question by question, with the marks against each one. All 124 read this way without an account, so you can sit any of them as a timed mock straight away.

Beside every question there is a link to its model answer. Open one and you get the worked answer, the reasoning behind it, and the note on any statute that has changed since the paper was set.

Where to start

Open the semester and pick your subject:

• All Sem 9 question papers
• BNSS and CrPC, 33 papers
• CPC, 30 papers
• Public International Law and Human Rights, 30 papers
• Interpretation of Statutes, 28 papers
• Labour Law and Industrial Relations II, 3 papers

The same papers serve LL.B. 3 Years Semester 5, because the University sets the same print for both courses. If you are on the three year course, the Sem 5 blueprint covers your side of it.

If a paper you sat is missing from the shelf, tell us and we will add it. The report link sits at the bottom of every paper page. Papers land after each exam season, and the new ones are solved the same way as the rest.