Tamil Nadu Civil Judge Mains 2020 Question Paper

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Tamil Nadu Civil Judge (Main) Examination 2020 (TNPSC)

TAMIL NADU JUDICIAL SERVICE (TNPSC CIVIL JUDGE) MAINS

Tamil Nadu Civil Judge (Main) Examination 2020

(TNPSC)

TRANSLATION PAPER (Tamil and English Versions)

Duration: 3 Hours

Max. Marks: 100

The facts and particulars provided in the question paper, i.e. the court’s name, place, case

numbers and names of parties, are fictional. Yet candidates have to conclusively assume them

to be true for the purpose of solving the questions. The paper contains four Sections A, B, C

and D. Each section contains two questions; in total 8 questions, and all the questions should

be answered. Questions in Section A carry 20 marks each. Questions in Sections B, C and D

carry 10 marks each.

Section A (2 × 20 = 40)

1. Translate the following into Tamil:

“Despite various measures to improve the socio-economic conditions of the Scheduled

Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, they remain vulnerable. They are denied a number of civil

rights. They are subjected to various offences, indignities, humiliations and harassment. They

have, in several brutal incidents, been deprived of their life and property. Serious crimes are

committed against them for various historical, social and economic reasons.”

Owing to awareness created amongst the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes through

spread of education, etc., they are trying to assert their rights and this is not being taken very

kindly by the others. When they assert their rights and resist practices of untouchability

against them or demand statutory minimum wages or refuse to do any bonded and forced

labour, the vested interests try to cow them down and terrorise them. When the Scheduled

Castes and the Scheduled Tribes try to preserve their self-respect or honour of their women,

they become irritants for the dominant and the mighty. Occupation and cultivation of even

the Government-allotted land by the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes is resented

and more often these people become victims of attacks by vested interests. Of late, there has

been an increase in the disturbing trend of commission of certain atrocities like making the

Scheduled Caste persons eat inedible substances like human excreta, attacks on, and mass

killings of, helpless Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes, rape of women belonging to

Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes. Under the circumstances, the existing laws like

the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 and the normal provisions of the Indian Penal Code

have been found to be inadequate to check these crimes. A special legislation to check and