LLM Group 4 Human Rights Law Science Technology and Human Rights Solved Question Papers with Answers - Mumbai University | munotes

This folder holds one paper, the sitting of 8 April 2026, printed on form 07423 under subject code 70510 as Paper VI of Group IV. Seven questions, attempt any four, four short notes of which two are to be written, eleven items in all, and 25 marks a question derived from the paper's own arithmetic since no figure is printed against anything.

This paper is far more medical than its title suggests. FIVE of its eleven items are about medicine: question 2 on advances in medical science and the right to health, question 3 on organ transplantation, question 4 on artificial insemination, short note (b) on in vitro fertilisation and short note (c) on medical negligence. Two more are about technology as a threat, question 5 on information technology and question 6 on anti terrorism measures. Only question 1 and short notes (a) and (d) ask about the general relationship between science and rights. Revise the medical statutes and you have covered nearly half the paper.

The statutes that carry that half are few and they should be learned by section. The Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994 as amended in 2011, for brain stem death in sections 2(d) and 3(6), the near relative rule and the Authorisation Committee in section 9, and the penalties in sections 18 and 19. The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021, above all section 27, which deems the child the biological child of the commissioning couple and strips the donor of every parental right. Section 112 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, now section 116 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, for legitimacy. And section 106(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, which since 1 July 2024 caps the sentence for a registered medical practitioner causing death by negligence at two years against the general five.

Question 3 and short note (c) both ask for RECENT DEVELOPMENTS, and on this subject that instruction is doing real work, because the answers changed in 2023. Three restrictions on registering as a recipient for a deceased donor organ were removed that year: the requirement that a patient register in the State where he lives, the sixty five year upper age ceiling, and the registration fee several States had been charging. None of the three had any clinical justification, and their removal is the most significant equity change the Indian transplant programme has had. A textbook printed before 2023 states all three as current law.

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