Maharashtra Police PSI flashcards

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Cognizable offence

An offence for which a police officer may arrest without a warrant and may investigate without an order of a Magistrate, as defined in Section 2(c) of the CrPC.

Zero FIR

An FIR registered by a police station that lacks territorial jurisdiction and then transferred to the competent station, ensuring no delay in registering a cognizable offence.

Section 41A CrPC notice

A written notice directing a person to appear before the police where arrest is not required; it is the default course for offences punishable with imprisonment up to seven years.

Dying declaration

A statement of a person as to the cause of his death or circumstances of the transaction resulting in death, admissible under Section 32(1) of the Evidence Act even without oath.

Section 27 Evidence Act

The proviso that admits so much of information received from an accused in custody as leads distinctly to the discovery of a fact, provided the discovery is pursuant to that information.

Anticipatory bail

Direction under Section 438 CrPC that a person apprehending arrest in a non-bailable offence be released on bail if arrested; it is normally time-bound and subject to conditions.

Charge under CrPC

A formal accusation under Section 211 CrPC stating the offence, its particulars and the time and place, enabling the accused to know exactly what he must answer.

Burden of proof

Section 101 of the Evidence Act places the burden on the person who asserts a fact; Section 106 shifts it to a person with special knowledge of the facts.

Maharashtra legislature strength

The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly has 288 elected members and the Legislative Council has 78 members, of whom one-third retire every two years as a continuing house.

Maharashtra revenue divisions

Maharashtra's 36 districts are grouped into six revenue divisions: Konkan, Nashik, Pune, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Aurangabad), Amravati and Nagpur.

Bombay High Court benches

The Bombay High Court has its principal seat in Mumbai and permanent benches at Nagpur and Aurangabad (Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar), plus a bench at Panaji for Goa.

Godavari river origin

The Godavari, the longest river of peninsular India, rises at Trimbakeshwar in Nashik district of Maharashtra and flows east into the Bay of Bengal.

RBI establishment

The Reserve Bank of India was constituted on 1 April 1935 under the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, and was nationalised on 1 January 1949.

Tropic of Cancer in Maharashtra

The Tropic of Cancer passes through Maharashtra districts including Dhule, Jalgaon, Buldhana and Nagpur, dividing the state into northern and southern climatic zones.

State symbols of Maharashtra

Maharashtra's state animal is the Indian giant squirrel, the state bird is the yellow-footed green pigeon, and the state tree is mango.

Konkan division

The Konkan revenue division of Maharashtra comprises Mumbai City, Mumbai Suburban, Thane, Palghar, Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts along the Arabian Sea coast.

Syllogism validity rule

A conclusion is valid only if it follows in every possible Venn arrangement of the premises; a conclusion true in one arrangement alone is not valid.

Ranking formula

Total number of persons = rank from top + rank from bottom − 1; persons between two ranks = difference of the two ranks − 1.

Circular seating facing centre

When persons face the centre of a circle, a person's left is clockwise and right is anticlockwise; reverse this when persons face outward.

Clock hands coincidence

The minute and hour hands coincide 11 times in every 12 hours, and are opposite each other 11 times in 12 hours, because coincidence occurs every 65 5/11 minutes.

Odd days rule

Odd days in 100 years = 5, in 200 years = 3, in 300 years = 1, and in 400 years = 0; a year has one odd day, a leap year two.

Blood relation symbols

Use a vertical line for parent-child, a double horizontal line for marriage, and mark gender explicitly; never infer gender from a name or neutral relation word.

Direction sense rule

A right turn rotates the facing 90 degrees clockwise and a left turn anticlockwise; the shortest distance after two perpendicular moves is found by Pythagoras.

Coding letter positions

Alphabet positions run A=1 to Z=26; the reverse position of a letter equals 27 minus its forward position, a common basis for coding-decoding patterns.

Marathi अव्ययीभाव समास

A compound in which the first member is an indeclinable like प्रति, यथा or आ, and the whole compound functions as an indeclinable, as in प्रतिदिन or यथाशक्ती.

Marathi बहुव्रीहि समास

A compound in which neither member is dominant and the whole word denotes a third entity, as in दशानन, meaning the ten-headed one, that is Ravana.

Marathi स्वरसंधी

The joining of two vowels into one, as विद्या plus अर्थी becomes विद्यार्थी; the resulting vowel may be a single or a diphthong sound.

Marathi वाक्प्रचार

A fixed idiomatic phrase that functions as a part of a sentence and whose meaning is figurative rather than the literal sum of its words.

Marathi म्हणी

A complete traditional proverb expressing folk wisdom in a sentence, used as a whole utterance rather than as a phrase embedded in a sentence.

Active to passive voice

The object becomes the subject, the verb becomes a form of be plus the past participle, and the original subject appears in a by-phrase or is dropped.

Direct to indirect speech

When the reporting verb is past, the reported tense shifts one step back, pronouns change to reflect the speaker, and time and place words are adjusted.