CLAT 2027 Daily Questions Series: 26th & 27th September Legal Reasoning & English Sections Questions & Answer

CLAT 2027 Daily Questions: Legal Reasoning & English

CLAT 2027 Current Affairs from Daily News: September 26 & 27, 2026

Practice questions below are created from the news of September 26 & 27, 2026.

Q1. Under which provision can the CEC be removed like a Supreme Court judge?
A. Article 324(1)
B. Article 324(5)
C. Article 324(2)
D. Section 16 of the 2023 Act Answer: B

Q2. Which form is used for fresh voter registration?
A. Form 6
B. Form 7
C. Form 8
D. Form 1

Answer: A

Q3. As per Section 18 of the 2023 Act, if Election Commissioners differ, the matter is decided by:

A. The CEC's veto
B. The President
C. The CEC's casting vote
D. The majority opinion

Answer: D

Q4. Which judge delivered the judgment?
A. Justice Dipankar Datta
B. Justice Amit Mahajan
C. Justice Sanjeev Narula
D. Justice Girish Kathpalia

Answer: C

Q5. Under POCSO, consent to sexual activity has no legal efficacy below which age?

A. 18
B. 16
C. 17
D. 15

Answer: A

Q6. The court held that personal law cannot:

A. Decide whether a marriage was contracted
B. Create an exception to a criminal law where Parliament has provided none
C. Affect maintenance rights
D. Affect legitimacy

Answer: B

Q7. From which date will MDR go live on UPI?

A. 7 October
B. 30 October
C. 15 October
D. 4 December

Answer: C

Q8. Who decides the GST rate on MDR?

A. GST Council
B. Finance Ministry alone
C. IBA
D. CAIT

Answer: A

Q9. How much has been budgeted this year for the RuPay/BHIM-UPI incentive scheme?

A. ₹200 crore
B. ₹20,000 crore
C. ₹2,000 crore
D. ₹57,000 crore

Answer: C

Q10. Operation Sindoor was launched on:

A. 22 April 2025
B. 26 September 2026
C. 4 January 2003
D. 7 May 2025

Answer: D

Q11. What are the "Four Fs" mentioned by Jaishankar?

A. Food, Fuel, Fertilizers and Finance
B. Force, Finance, Food, Freedom
C. Fuel, Fertilizers, Forests, Fisheries
D. Food, Fibre, Fuel, Freight

Answer: A

Q12. Who exercised India's Right of Reply on Friday night?

A. S. Jaishankar
B. Shehbaz Sharif
C. Petal Gahlot
D. Om Birla

Answer: C

Q13. Who headed the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel?

A. K. Kasturirangan
B. Madhav Gadgil
C. Sunny Joseph
D. Eshwar Khandre

Answer: B

Q14. How much time did the Karnataka Legislature seek for a physical survey?

A. 60 days
B. Six months
C. Three years
D. One year

Answer: D

Q15. Which activity is banned under the Kasturirangan report?

A. Agriculture
B. Mining
C. House renovation
D. Rainwater harvesting

Answer: B

Practice Questions for CLAT 2027 Legal Reasoning

The daily practice questions for CLAT 2027 legal reasoning are based on two passages from previous years’ question papers.

Passage 1

Same-sex marriage has no legal recognition in India as per the recent Supreme Court's judgment, where it was decided that this is an issue for Parliament to address. While Hindu marriages between transgender persons and cisgender men are permissible, and the Court acknowledged systemic discrimination and the right to choose a partner, it held that there is no fundamental right to marry. The government has been urged to form a panel to consider granting more legal rights to same-sex couples, but the legal status of marriage remains unchanged for now. The five-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India in Supriyo @ Supriya Chakraborty & Anr. v. Union of India (2023), in a majority verdict, ruled that there is no fundamental right to marry under the Indian Constitution, making it beyond the court's scope to legislate on same-sex marriage.

The Court stated that the power to legislate on same-sex marriage rests with the Parliament and state legislatures. The judgment affirmed constitutional rights for LGBTQ+ citizens and the right to choose a partner. The government agreed to set up а panel to explore legal rights and benefits for same-sex couples, though these benefits are not the same as those conferred by marriage. Same-sex couples cannot legally marry and do not receive the same legal rights, such as automatic inheritance, pension, or adoption rights, that legally married couples do. Despite the ruling, LGBTQ+ couples continue to face legal discrimination and have no social recognition of marriage. The Court affirmed the right of same-sex couples to cohabit privately. While the Supreme Court's verdict brought limited benefits and acknowledgments, it has not legalized same-sex marriage in India, deferring the ultimate decision to the Parliament. (279 words) [Extracted, with edits and revisions, from “The Hindu”, dated 27th October 2023)

Q1. In October 2023, two individuals in India, Ramesh and Sameer, who identify as a same-sex couple, sought to legally solemnize their marriage. Based on the Supreme Court's ruling, what is the current legal standing of their ability to marry?

(A) Their marriage is legally recognized nationwide under a new constitutional right

(B) Their marriage is not legally recognized, as the Supreme Court ruled that this issue is for Parliament to address

(C) Their marriage is recognized only if both of them identify as transgender

(D) Their marriage is temporarily recognized until Parliament decides otherwise

Q2. During a legal proceeding in India, an advocate argues that the Supreme Court should directly legislate on same-sex marriage because the right to choose a partner inherently implies a fundamental right to marry for all citizens. How would the Supreme Court's judgment likely counter this argument?

(A) The Court acknowledged the right to choose a partner, therefore, it would agree to legislate on marriage

(B) The Court held that there is no fundamental right to marry under the Indian Constitution, and such a policy can be made only by the Parliament

(C) The Court has held that it will set up a panel to look into the fundamental right to marry

(D) The Court upheld the fundamental right to marry, but declined to recognise same sex marriage

Q3. Following the Supreme Court's decision, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group in India aims to achieve legal recognition for same-sex marriage. To which governmental body or bodies should this group primarily direct its lobbying efforts to secure the necessary legíslation?

(A) The Supreme Court of India, as they are ultimately responsible for interpreting constitutional rights

(B) The President of India as head of the Union legislature

(C) The Parliament and state legislatures, as the power to legislate on same-sex marriage rests with them

(D) The National Commission for Human Rights, to advocate for a new directive

Q4. While same-sex marriage is not legally recognized in India, the Supreme Court's verdict did offer some acknowledgments of rights for same-sex couples. Which of the following rights was specifically affirmed by the Court?

(A) The automatic right to inheritance for same-sex partners

(B) The right of same-sex couples to adopt children jointly

(C) The right of same-sex couples to cohabit privately

(D) The right to maintenance for same-sex partners

Q5. Ramesh and Suresh, a same-sex couple in India, have lived together for a decade and want to ensure they receive legal benefits equivalent to those of married couples, such as automatic inheritance and pension rights. Based on the Supreme Court's judgment, what is the primary obstacle they face in achieving these benefits?

(A) They must first register their union with the government panel that was urged to be formed

(B) They cannot legally marry and therefore cannot automatically be entitled to these specific legal rights

(C) These rights are only available to same-sex couples where one partner is transgender

(D) They can receive these benefits if they convert to a religion that recognizes same-sex unions

Q6. The new acronym that evolved after LGBTQ+ is an acronym called LGBTQIA+. In this new acronym, 'IA' refers to:

(A) Intersex and Asexual

(B) Initialisms and Agender

(C) Intersex and Ally

(D) Intrasex and Androgynous

Passage 2

Children come into contact with the criminal justice system either as victims or witnesses to a crime or as children in conflict with the law (CICL). As CICL, they could be alleged to have, accused of, or recognised as having broken the law by committing a crime. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) Report 2021, India recorded a total of 1,49,404 instances of crimes against children in 2021 — a rise of over 16 per cent from the previous year. In terms of percentage, the top categories under crimes against children were kidnapping and abduction, followed by cases registered under the POCSO Act. Further, the NCRB report revealed that of the total cases, 53,874 were registered under POCSO Sections. Sexual offences against children show a steady ascent, with 47,221 such cases being recorded in 2020, and 47,335 cases in 2019. In 2019, as many as 32,269 cases were registered across the country, while the 2021 report registered a decline of 3.5 per cent, recording 31,170 cases. The Criminal Justice system of any country broadly refers to agencies of the government charged with enforcing law, adjudicating crime, and correcting criminal conduct. The main objective of the criminal justice system is ‘deterrence’, i.e., to punish the ‘transgressors and the criminals’ and to maintain law and order in society. Globally, children and young people are routinely exposed to various forms of violence if they are involved in the criminal justice system. They are at risk of physical and psychological abuse, sexual assault, and other harms, including inadequate educational opportunities, poor and outdated vocational training. They face several challenges, including mental, emotional, and behavioural disorders. Children who are victims of violence or exposed to violence during childhood are more likely to have difficulty in school, abuse drugs or alcohol, act aggressively, suffer from depression or other mental health problems, and engage in criminal behaviour as adults. [Extracted, with edits and revisions from “Child Rights in the Criminal Justice System: Need for Law Reform” written by Dr. Asha Bajpai published in the Journal of the National Human Rights Commission, India].

Q1. Which of the following issues do children who are victims of violence during childhood face in life, as per the author of the above passage?

(A) They may have difficulties in school

(B) They may abuse drugs or alcohol and suffer from mental health problems

(C) They may act aggressively and engage in criminal behaviours

(D) All of the above

Q2. What is the primary objective of the criminal justice system as mentioned in the passage?

(A) Rehabilitation of offenders

(B) Punishment of the offenders

(C) Reformation of the offenders

(D) Protection of victims from the offender

Q3. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in India is responsible for:

(A) Conducting forensic investigations of Records of Criminals

(B) Maintaining a national database of fingerprints of Criminals

(C) Compiling and analysing crime data

(D) Maintaining a national database of enforcement of criminal laws

Q4. Which category had the highest number of cases under crimes against children according to the NCRB Report 2021?

(A) POCSO

(B) Kidnapping and abduction

(C) Sexual Offences

(D) All of the above

Q5. Which one of the following is the correct expansion of the term POCSO used in the passage?

(A) Protection of Children from Sexual Offences

(B) Prosecution of Criminals of Sexual Offences

(C) Protection of Children & Women from Sexual Offences

(D) None of the above

Q6. What risks do children face when exposed to the criminal justice system as per the passage?

(A) Limited access to vocational training

(B) Exposed to the risk of physical abuse

(C) Mental health challenges and behavioural disorders

(D) All of the above

Daily Questions for CLAT 2027 English

Below are practice questions based on passages from last year’s CLAT question paper.

Passage 1

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, and he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he claims dominion over all animals. He sets us to work, returns only the bare minimum to keep us from starving, and keeps the rest for himself. Our labour tills the soil, our dung fertilizes it, and still, not one of us owns more than our bare skin. You cows, look at yourselves–how many thousands of gallons of milk have you produced this past year? And what has become of it, milk that should have nurtured strong calves? Every drop has gone down the throats of our enemies. And you hens, how many eggs have you laid, and how many of those ever hatched into chicks? The rest have gone to market to bring in money for Jones and his men. And you, Clover, where are the four foals you bore, who should have supported and comforted you in your old age? Each was sold at just a year old–you will never see them again. For all your labour in the fields and your four confinements, what have you gained except bare rations and a stall?

Even the lives we do live are cut short, denied their natural span. I do not grumble, for I am among the fortunate. I am twelve years old and have borne over four hundred children. Such is the natural life of a pig. But no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end. You young porkers sitting before me, each of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year. This is the fate that awaits all of us–cows, pigs, hens, sheep, everyone. Even horses and dogs share no better end. Boxer, the very day your great muscles fail you, Jones will sell you to the knacker, who will slit your throat and boil you down for the foxhounds. And the dogs, when old and toothless, are tied with a brick and drowned in the nearest pond. (356 words) [Extracted with edits from George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”]

Q1. Which of the following best describes the tone of the passage?

(A) Detached and neutral

(B) Critical, somber, and resentful, evoking both awareness and outrage

(C) Humorous and light-hearted

(D) Admiring and celebratory

Q2. The speaker frequently contrasts animals’ work with human gain. This literary technique is best classified as:

(A) Allegory of class exploitation

(B) Hyperbole for comic effect

(C) Irony about farm management

(D) Metaphor for animal biology

Q3. Who is a ‘knacker’?

(A) A slaughterer

(B) A trader whose business is disposal of dead and unwanted animals

(C) A person whose business is disposal of dead or unwanted animals, especially those whose flesh is not fit for human consumption

(D) Harness-maker

Q4. The repeated reference to slaughter, drowning, and the knacker in the passage primarily implies:

(A) Provide a detailed account of animal husbandry

(B) Evoke emotional outrage and highlight the brutality of exploitation

(C) Suggest that animals are naturally subservient

(D) Indicate that humans value animals

Passage 2

From a very early age, I knew that when I grew up, I should be a writer. I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. I wanted to write enormous naturalistic novels with unhappy endings, full of detailed descriptions and arresting similes, and also full of purple passages in which words were used partly for the sake of their sound. I give all this background information because I do not think one can assess a writer’s motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject-matter will be determined by the age he lives in – at least this is true in tumultuous, revolutionary ages like our own – but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. It is his job to discipline his temperament, but if he escapes from his early influences altogether, he will have killed his impulse to write. I think there are four great motives for writing, at any rate for writing prose. They are: (i) Sheer egoism: Desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on grown-ups who snubbed you in childhood; (ii) Aesthetic enthusiasm: Desire to share an experience which one feels is valuable and ought not to be missed (iii) Historical impulse: Desire to see things as they are, to find out facts and store them up for the use of posterity (iv) Political purpose: Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other people’s idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. [Extracted with edits from George Orwell’s “Why I Write”]

Q1. For the author, aesthetic enthusiasm is an important motive for writing because it ...

(A) shapes the thoughts

(B) creates an artistic piece

(C) becomes invaluable

(D) non-utilitarian

Q2. The author strongly advocates the writers to:

(A) avoid any egoistic impression in their work

(B) be apolitical in their approach

(C) be contemporary in their treatment of their work

(D) None of the above

Q3. Which of the following is a synonym for the word “tumultuous”?

(A) Chaotic

(B) Turbulent

(C) Disorderly

(D) All of the above

Q4. George Orwell’s loneliness during childhood led to

(A) estrangement from his father

(B) unhappy days

(C) making up stories

(D) unpleasant incidents

Q5. Why does Orwell give background information?

(A) He had the lonely child’s habits

(B) It is essential to know about the motives of writers

(C) Because of his historic impulse

(D) Due to the aesthetic enthusiasm

Q6. If a writer escapes from early impulses, he will ...

(A) lose his urge to write

(B) be unable to imagine creatively

(C) be able to converse with imaginary characters

(D) be able to influence others