{"id":2410,"date":"2025-05-01T19:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2410"},"modified":"2025-05-01T19:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:13:11","slug":"q-a-writ-of-prohibition-is-an-order-issued-by-the-supreme-court-or-high-courts-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-a-writ-of-prohibition-is-an-order-issued-by-the-supreme-court-or-high-courts-to","title":{"rendered":"Q. A Writ of Prohibition is an order issued by the Supreme Court or High Courts to:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list mcq\">\n<li>a government officer prohibiting him from taking a particular action.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the parliament\/Legislative Assembly to pass a law on Prohibition.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the lower court prohibiting continuation of proceedings in a case<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the Government prohibiting it from following an unconstitutional policy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer:&nbsp;(c) the lower court prohibiting continuation of proceedings in a case<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"prohibition\"><strong>Prohibition<\/strong>:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A writ of prohibition is issued by a Court\u00a0<strong>to prohibit the lower courts, tribunals and other quasi-judicial authorities from doing something beyond their authority<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is issued to direct inactivity and thus differs from mandamus which directs activity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The writ of prohibition can be issued\u00a0<strong>only against judicial and quasijudicial authorities.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is\u00a0<strong>not available against administrative authorities, legislative bodies, and private individuals or bodies.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer:&nbsp;(c) the lower court prohibiting continuation of proceedings in a case Prohibition:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[39],"years":[49],"class_list":["post-2410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-indian-polity","years-49"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":39,"label":"Indian Polity"}],"years":[{"value":49,"label":"2024"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":39,"name":"Indian Polity","slug":"indian-polity","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":39,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":188,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}