RAS question
Justice Surya Kant, the 53rd CJI, started practising law at the District Court of which city?
Correct answer: (C) Hisar.
Justice Surya Kant started practising law at the District Court, Hisar, in 1984.
Explanation
Justice Surya Kant's Supreme Court profile places the start of his legal practice clearly at District Court, Hisar, in 1984. The same profile says he was born at Hisar in Haryana on 10 February 1962, graduated from Government Post Graduate College, Hisar in 1981, earned his law degree in 1984 from Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak, and then began practice at District Court, Hisar. This matters because the question asks for the city of the district court where his practice began, not the later place where he shifted for High Court practice. Chandigarh appears in his career only after 1984, when he moved there in 1985 to practise in the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Chandigarh was where Justice Surya Kant shifted in 1985 to practise in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, not where he started practice at the district court.
- (B) Shimla is not named in the cited profile as the city where he began practice; the profile identifies District Court, Hisar, for that event.
- (D) Karnal is not connected in the cited profile with the start of his legal practice, which is specifically placed at District Court, Hisar.
Concept
This tests the constitutional-governance habit of linking senior judicial appointments with basic biographical facts from official profiles. RAS often asks such current-affairs facts because they connect constitutional offices with verifiable institutional sources.