Mumbai University Solved Question Papers
Administrative Law
Previous Year Question Paper with Solution
BLS LLB 5 Years · Sem 7
Dec 2023 - 60/40 Examination
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Mumbai University Solved Question Papers
Administrative Law
Previous Year Question Paper with Solution
BLS LLB 5 Years · Sem 7
Dec 2023 - 60/40 Examination
munotes.in
Mumbai
First published on munotes.in on 11 August 2026.
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The answers in this volume state the law as it stands today, not as it stood when this paper was set, and in this subject that distinction is doing real work. On 19 November 2025 the Supreme Court struck down the core provisions of the Tribunals Reforms Act, 2021 governing the appointment, tenure and conditions of service of tribunal members, so a textbook printed before that date states the position wrongly; every answer here on tribunals gives the Act as enacted and then what survives of it. The criminal statutes the older papers cite have also been replaced, so where a question is set on Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code the answer gives the corresponding section of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 alongside it, and the same is done for the Indian Evidence Act. Where a decision relied on in an older paper has since been overruled, most importantly ADM Jabalpur, the answer says so. A repeated question from an older paper can therefore be answered from these pages as they are written.
The questions below are the paper as the University of Mumbai set it at the Dec 2023 - 60/40 examination, in the order it was set.
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Pecuniary bias is bias arising from a financial or proprietary interest, however small, in the subject matter of the proceeding or in one of the parties.
It is the strictest form of the rule against bias: any pecuniary interest disqualifies automatically, and the court makes no inquiry into whether it actually influenced the decision.
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