Daily UPSC Prelims Current Affairs – December 23, 2022 [Mock Test]
December 28, 2022 December 28, 2022
1. Recently, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has released draft notification for front-of-pack labelling star rating system, which of the following products are kept outside this rating system?
- Fresh and frozen meat
- Flour
- Sweeteners
- Butter
- Carbonated beverages without any energy
- Vegetable oil
Choose the correct answer using the codes given below:
[A] Only 1, 4 & 5
[B] Only 2, 3 & 6
[C] Only 1, 2, 4 & 6
[D] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6
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Correct Answer: D [1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6]
Notes:- The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the country’s apex food regulator, has released draft notification for front-of-pack labelling to discourage consumers from buying packaged food high in sugar, salt, and fat, which will require pre-packaged food to carry a star graphic — ranging for 0 to 5 — next to the brand name.
- Like the star-rating system for energy efficiency of electronic products, the ‘Indian Nutrition Rating (INR)’ will see the unhealthiest food items carry a 0-star rating and the healthiest carry a 5-star rating.
- To generate the star-rating logo for the product, food businesses have to submit nutritional profiles of the products concerned on FSSAI’s FoSCoS (Food Safety Compliance System) portal.
- Food such as milk and milk products, whey, butter oil, ghee, vegetable oil and fat, fresh and frozen fruit and vegetables, fresh and frozen meat, egg, fish, flour, and sweeteners will not have to display the star rating. Carbonated beverages without any energy or sugar will also not be eligible for declaring the rating, according to the notification.
2. In which of the following Supreme Court cases, SC propounded the dictum of ‘rarest of rare principle’?
[A] Jagmohan Singh v. State of UP 1973 case
[B] Rajendra Prasad v. State of UP 1979 case
[C] Bachan Singh v. the State of Punjab 1980 case
[D] Machhi Singh v. State of Punjab 1983 case
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Correct Answer: C [Bachan Singh v. the State of Punjab 1980 case]
Notes:- In Jagmohan Singh v. State of UP 1973 case, SC held that according to Article 21 deprivation of life is constitutionally permissible if that is done according to the procedure established by law.
- In Rajendra Prasad v. State of UP 1979 case, SC held that, if the murderous operation of a criminal jeopardizes social security in a persistent, planned and perilous fashion then his enjoyment of fundamental rights may be rightly annihilated.
- In Bachan Singh v. the State of Punjab 1980 case, SC propounded the dictum of ‘rarest of rare cases’ according to which death penalty is not to be awarded except in the ‘rarest of rare cases’ when the alternative option is unquestionably foreclosed.
- In Machhi Singh v. State of Punjab 1983 case, Supreme Court laid down certain considerations for determining whether a case falls under the category of rarest of rare cases or not.
3. With respect to the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, 2022, consider the following statements:
- The Act seeks to repeal the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920.
- The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) will be the agency for storing and preserving the data of arrested persons.
- State governments cannot store this data.
- The Act empowers a Magistrate to direct any person to give measurements.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
[A] Only 1 & 2
[B] Only 1 & 3
[C] Only 1, 2 & 4
[D] 1, 2, 3 & 4
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Correct Answer: C [Only 1, 2 & 4]
Notes:- Recently, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) notified the rules governing The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, 2022. The legislation would enable police and central investigating agencies to collect, store and analyse physical and biological samples including retina and iris scans of arrested persons.
- The Act seeks to repeal the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920,
- As per the rules, “measurements” include:
- finger-impressions
- palm-print
- footprint
- photographs
- iris and retina scan
- physical, biological samples and their analysis
- behavioural attributes including signatures, handwriting or any other examination referred to in Section 53 or 53A of CrPC, 1973.
- The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) will be the agency for storing and preserving the data of arrested persons. State government can store data, but it shall provide compatible application programming interfaces for sharing the measurements or record of measurements with the NCRB.
- Records will be stored for 75 years from the time of collection.
- The Act empowers a Magistrate to direct any person to give measurements.
