Consider the following pairs: BNS Provision - Erstwhile IPC Equivalent / Subject 1. Section 103(1) BNS - Successor provision to Section 302 IPC, dealing with murder 2. Section 238 BNS - Successor provision to Section 201 IPC, dealing with causing disappearance of evidence 3. Shakti Vahini v. Union of India (2018) - Supreme Court ruling laying down preventive, remedial and punitive guidelines against honour killings 4. Lata Singh v. State of U.P. (2006) - First Supreme Court ruling to introduce the death penalty as mandatory punishment for honour killings How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?

Ethics · 10 Aug 2026

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita murder sections

Consider the following pairs: BNS Provision - Erstwhile IPC Equivalent / Subject 1. Section 103

BNS - Successor provision to Section 302 IPC, dealing with murder 2. Section 238 BNS - Successor provision to Section 201 IPC, dealing with causing disappearance of evidence 3. Shakti Vahini v. Union of India
- Supreme Court ruling laying down preventive, remedial and punitive guidelines against honour killings 4. Lata Singh v. State of U.P.
- First Supreme Court ruling to introduce the death penalty as mandatory punishment for honour killings

How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?

AOnly one pair

BOnly two pairs

COnly three pairs

DAll four pairs

Tests the ability to identify an overstated or fabricated judicial holding attributed to a genuine landmark case, distinguishing what a precedent actually established from a plausible-sounding exaggeration.

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This question is based on: When "Honour" Becomes the Justification for Murder: The Chambal River Case

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Why in news

Delhi Police have registered charges under Sections 103(1) and 238 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita against a father and son-in-law accused of drowning an 18-year-old pregnant woman in the Chambal river to avoid the social stigma of her unmarried pregnancy.

Why for UPSC

Match-the-pairs format tests whether aspirants can identify an overstated judicial holding (mandatory death penalty) that was never actually part of a cited precedent - a subtle but common UPSC distractor technique for landmark case questions.

Prelims summary

Sections 103(1) and 238 of the BNS succeed IPC Sections 302 and 201 respectively; Shakti Vahini (2018) laid down guidelines against honour killings, while Lata Singh (2006) condemned such violence without mandating the death penalty.

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