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Principle: When a statute authorizes the doing of an act, which would otherwise be a tort, the party injured has no remedy except the one, if any, provided by the statute itself. The act done in pursuance of statutory power must be done without negligence.
Facts: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is authorized by a statute to build and run metro rails oh the specified routes in Delhi. One of the pillars of the metro line collapsed causing death of five persons. It was found that the pillar collapsed because the engineer has not properly inspected it. Dependants of the deceased claimed damages from Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).

Principle: When a statute authorizes the doing of an act, which would otherwise be a tort, the party injured has no remedy except the one, if any, provided by the statute itself. The act done in pursuance of statutory power must be done without negligence.
Facts: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is authorized by a statute to build and run metro rails oh the specified routes in Delhi. One of the pillars of the metro line collapsed causing death of five persons. It was found that the pillar collapsed because the engineer has not properly inspected it. Dependants of the deceased claimed damages from Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC). Correct Answer Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is liable as the pillar collapsed due to the negligence of an employee of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC)

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Suppose on performing reduced error pruning, we collapsed a node and observed an improvement in the prediction accuracy on the validation set. Which among the following statements are possible in light of the performance improvement observed? (a) The collapsed node helped overcome the effect of one or more noise affected data points in the training set (b) The validation set had one or more noise affected data points in the region corresponding to the collapsed node (c) The validation set did not have any data points along at least one of the collapsed branches (d) The validation set did have data points adversely affected by the collapsed node
A' and 'B' have been accused of an offence where the accused persons had no intention of causing the death of any one and no injury was found on the deceased which was sufficient to cause death in the ordinary course of nature. As per medical opinion, the injuries were not likely to cause death. It could not be established as to which of the two accused inflicted injuries on the head of the deceased. The accused should be liable to be convicted under:
Study the following information carefully to answer the question given below. Following are the qualifications and conditions for certain posts in a “XYZ” company, The candidate must: a) be an engineering graduate with atleast 70% marks. b) be not less than 21 yrs and not more than 26 years of age as on 01/04/2018 c) have passed the written test with at least 60% of marks d) be willing to pay a deposit of Rs. 2.5 lakhs, to be refunded on completion of probation & training If the candidate is satisfied with (a)-(e) would be referred as Engineer. (i) at (a) but appeared final semester exam result yet to be declared with 75% average marks up to seventh semester be referred as Project-Engineer (ii) at (a) but has done diploma in engineering with 75% of marks be referred as Asst. Engineer (iii) at (d) be willing to pay Rs. 1.5 lakhs as security deposit he referred as Engineer-Trainee (iv) at (b) even if age above 26 years age as on 1/4/18 but with 3 years of experience be referred as Senior-Engineer Fatima is 28 years now in July 2018. She has completed B-E in information technology with 86% of marks. She has passed written test with 73% of marks. She is willing to pay Rs. 2.5 Lakhs of security deposit. She also had an experience of 3 years in the relevant field. For which position she will be referred? 
On which of the following metro routes did the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) launch free Wi-Fi facility in January 2020?
Principle: Whoever causes death by doing an act with the intention of causing death, commits the offence of culpable homicide. However, a person is guilty of culpable homicide amounting to murder if the act by which the death is caused is done with the intention of causing death.
Factual Situation: Saurab, had a serious argument with his wife. The woman uttered some filthy words at Saurab, which further irritated him. He moved towards the woman with a wooden piece to beat her. Suddenly, their daughter who was sleeping in the room woke up and ran towards her mother. Saurab's blow fell on the child's head and she fell down unconscious. The couple believed that their daughter died due to the blow.
Saurab immediately took out a rope and hung her by the neck on to the ceiling fan to give the impression that the girl committed suicide as she failed in the Class X examination. When the rope got tightened the child cried, but died immediately due to asphyxiation.
Which of the following statement/s is/are correct? Answer by using the below:
(1) In tort duty is imposed by law and is owed to the community at large
(2) A tort is founded upon consent of parties
(3) A tort is civil wrong for which the remedy is a common law action for liquidated damages
(4) In tort 'motive' for the violation of right is immaterial.
In each question below is given a statement numbered I, II and III. An assumption is something supposed or taken for granted. You have to consider the following assumption and decide which of the assumption is implicit in the statement. Statement: Delhi Metro commuters may face tough time as Metro's 9,000-strong workforce of non-executive employees have threatened to go on a strike from June 30. The non-executive workforce including train operators, station controllers, technicians, operations staff, maintenance staff, have been protesting since June 19 at various depots and control rooms of the Delhi Metro for revision of salaries and right to form Union. Last year too, Metro services had come to the brink of a shutdown when the non-executive staff had threatened to go on strike on similar demands. Assumptions: I. The employees demand pay hike, payment of arrears, right to form a union and fixed guidelines for sacking an employee only in extreme conditions.  II. There is no consistency maintained during upgradation of scales and employees are stuck in one grade since a long period. III. There would be no maintenance of trains and trains will not be rolled out of train depots. Station controllers would ensure that entry to metro stations is also closed for public.
Which of the following statements are correct?
1. In tort, the duties are imposed by law whereas in contract, duties are undertaken by the parties themselves.
2. In tort, the duty is towards the world at large but in contract, the duty is towards specific individual or individuals.
3. In tort, damages are liquidated but in contract, the damages are unliquidated.
4. In tort, a person may be liable for the wrongs committed by others also but in contract, the liability governs the parties to the contract only.
Select the correct answer using the given below:
A transportation trip survey was undertaken between private car, and public car transportation. The proportion of those using private cars is 0.45. While using the public transport, the further choices available are Metro Rail and Mono Rail, out of which commuting by a Mono Rail has a proportion of 0.55. In such a situation, the choice of interest in using a Metro Rail, Mono Rail and private car would be respectively