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First published on munotes.in on 11 August 2026.
This edition revised 29 September 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.
Contents
The questions below are the paper as the University of Mumbai set it at the Apr 2026 - 75/25 examination, in the order it was set.
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The Paper as Set
The questions in this volume are the questions asked at the Apr 2026 - 75/25 examination, reproduced as the University of Mumbai set them, in the order it set them. Nothing has been reworded, added or left out. Only the answers are ours. See the original question paper.
Duration 2½ hours · Total marks 75 · 21 questions answered
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- N.B: 1. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
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Q.1
Write short notes answers on any six 12 Marks
(1)What is a writ?[2]
Answer
A writ is a formal written command issued by a superior court to a person, an authority or an inferior court, requiring it to do or to stop doing something. The five writs came into English law as prerogative writs, issued in the name of the Crown. India took them into the Constitution.
Where the power comes from.
- Article 32 gives the Supreme Court power to issue directions, orders or writs, including habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, quo warranto and certiorari, for the enforcement of fundamental rights. The right to move the Supreme Court under Article 32 is itself a fundamental right, which Dr Ambedkar called the very soul of the Constitution.
- Article 226 gives every High Court the same power, but on wider ground, for a fundamental right "and for any other purpose", which means for an ordinary legal right as well.
The five writs, in one line each.
- Habeas corpus, "you may have the body": produce the detained person and justify the detention.
- Mandamus, "we command": perform the public duty you have refused to perform.
- Prohibition: stop the proceeding that is outside your jurisdiction, while it is still pending.
- Certiorari, "to be certified": send up the record so the decision can be quashed.
- Quo warranto, "by what authority": show by what authority you hold this public office.
Conclusion. A writ is the command by which a superior court controls the exercise of power. In administrative law the writs are the enforcement machinery: every rule the subject teaches reaches the citizen only through Article 32 or Article 226. L. Chandra Kumar v. Union of India (1997) 3 SCC 261 holds that judicial review under Articles 226 and 227 is part of the basic structure, so this machinery cannot be legislated away.
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