CCSU BA LL.B. - Law and Media-I - 2025 - Old question paper

B.A. LL.B. Examination, Dec.-2025
LAW AND MEDIA-I
BL-3002 (A)
(New Course)

Section A
Note: Attempt all questions. Each question carries 4 marks. Very short answer is required not exceeding 75 words.

1. What is called Media?
2. What do you mean by obscenity?
3. What do you understand by 'right to privacy'?
4. Define 'contempt of Court' as mentioned in the contempt of Court Act, 1971.
5. What is advertisement ethics?

Section B
Note: Attempt any two questions out of the following three. Each question carries 10 marks. Short answer is required 200 words.

6. What are the barriers of communication?
7. Write a brief note of evolution and development of Broadcast sector.
8. Give a brief account of the salient features of the official Secrete Act, 1923.

Section C
Note: Attempt any three questions out of the following five. Each question carries 20 marks. Detailed answer is required.

9. What is called 'right to publish'? Under which article of the constitution, the public interest is safe-guarded.
10. What is called defamation? What are the different conditions of the defamation?
11. What precautions a journalists and a media person should take during reporting about parliamentary proceedings?
12. What are the powers of High Court to punish the contempt of its subordinate courts under the contempt of Court Act, 1971?
13. Give a brief account of 'Working Journalists and other newspapers employees (Condition of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955.