Haryana Police SI key terms

Guarantees the right to life and personal liberty, expanded by courts to include dignity, privacy, speedy trial and fair procedure; a frequent topic in policing and law questions.

Two standards for testing state action against personal liberty; Indian courts read Article 21 as requiring fair, just and reasonable procedure, not merely a valid statute.

Rights in Part III of the Constitution, enforceable through writs under Article 32; they limit police power and include equality, freedom of speech and protection of life.

A court order requiring a person detaining another to produce the detainee and justify the detention; the main judicial remedy against unlawful police custody.

Arrest is taking a person into legal custody to answer a charge; custody is the actual detention. Arrest requires grounds, information to the person and production before a magistrate.

The earliest report of a cognizable offence recorded by police under the criminal procedure law, which sets the investigation in motion and is signed by the informant.

A cognizable offence allows police to register a case and arrest without a warrant; a non-cognizable offence needs a magistrate's order and is generally investigated only after permission.

A report of a cognizable offence registered at any police station regardless of jurisdiction and later transferred to the proper station, ensuring no delay in serious cases.

A magistrate's order restricting assembly of four or more persons and specified acts in a defined area for a limited period, used to prevent breach of public tranquillity.

An assembly of five or more persons with a common object of using criminal force, threatening public peace or resisting law; membership itself is punishable.

The principle that Parliament cannot amend the Constitution so as to destroy its essential features such as supremacy of law, judicial review and free elections.

Gandhian ideas of welfare for all and uplift of the last person; they shape Haryana's development rhetoric and schemes named after them.

Administrative changes after 2014 in Haryana, including online recruitment, e-governance, merit-based jobs and the Parivar Pehchan Patra family identity database.

Haryana's family identity number scheme linking members to one database for verifying eligibility and delivering welfare benefits transparently.

The epic battle tradition linked to Kurukshetra in Haryana, a major cultural and tourism identity for the state and site of the Brahma Sarovar and Jyotisar.

Historic sites near Faridabad and Panchkula; Surajkund hosts a famous crafts mela, and Pinjore has Mughal-style terraced gardens built under Aurangzeb's governor.

The state's dependence on wheat, rice, mustard and dairy, supported by canal irrigation and minimum support price procurement, making agriculture central to its economy.

The post-1960s adoption of high-yielding wheat varieties, tubewells and fertilisers that made Haryana a leading contributor to India's food grain buffer stock.

Growth belts along the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal expressway and the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor that attract manufacturing and logistics investment.

A form of deductive reasoning with two premises and a conclusion; candidates must decide whether the conclusion follows from the given statements using Venn diagrams.

A reasoning question type where a short statement is given and the candidate judges which hidden assumptions are implicit in it.

Puzzles describing family links through coded statements or a chain of relations, requiring the candidate to identify how two persons are related.

A puzzle placing people in a row or around a circular table under given conditions; the candidate determines positions or answers a specific positional question.

Pattern questions requiring the next term of a sequence or the decoding of words and numbers using a rule, testing numerical and logical pattern recognition.

Core arithmetic topics covering percentage change, cost price, selling price, marked price and discount, frequently combined in a single aptitude question.

Comparison of two quantities and equality of two ratios; used to divide amounts, solve mixture problems and handle partnership questions.

Relationships among speed, time and distance, extended to trains, boats and streams and relative speed problems.

Problems on mean values and on blending two or more components, often solved by the alligation rule.

Counting methods for arrangements where order matters and selections where it does not, often paired with probability questions.

Fixed expressions whose meaning differs from the literal words, tested through sentence-based questions in the English section.

Identifying the grammatically incorrect part of a sentence, usually testing subject-verb agreement, tense, articles and prepositions.

A passage with blanks to be filled by choosing the word or phrase that best fits the meaning and grammar of the surrounding text.

Replacing a phrase with a single precise word, a vocabulary item commonly asked in objective English papers.

Regional speech forms such as Haryanvi used in the state, influencing vocabulary and idiom in Hindi comprehension questions with a local flavour.

Hindi grammar processes of joining sounds and compounding words; questions ask candidates to split or identify the type of compound.

An IP address is a numeric label for a device on a network; a URL is the human-readable web address that resolves to a server location.

A browser requests and displays web pages, while a search engine indexes the web and returns results; candidates must distinguish the two.

Storage is measured in bits, bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes, with each unit a multiple of the previous one.

Classification of hardware: input devices such as keyboards and scanners, output devices such as monitors and printers, and storage media such as disks and pen drives.

Offences such as identity theft, phishing and data breach, addressed by the Information Technology Act and investigated by cyber police cells.