UPSC Prelims 2021— Question 57

Shah Nawaz Khan, Prem Kumar Sehgal and Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon were officers of the Indian National Army who became prominent in the INA trials after the Second World War. Their names are closely associated with the Red Fort trials and the nationalist military effort led by Subhas Chandra Bose. They were not members of the Drafting Committee or the Interim Government in the stated capacity. The final answer-key position for Set C identifies option D as the correct option. Option A — leaders of Swadeshi and Boycott Movement — is not correct because it does not satisfy the specific condition tested in the question; it represents an alternative that is contradicted, incomplete, or less precise than the accepted answer. Option B — members of the Interim Government in 1946 — is not correct because it does not satisfy the specific condition tested in the question; it represents an alternative that is contradicted, incomplete, or less precise than the accepted answer. Option C — members of the Drafting Committee in the Constituent Assembly — is not correct because it does not satisfy the specific condition tested in the question; it represents an alternative that is contradicted, incomplete, or less precise than the accepted answer. Option D — officers of the Indian National Army — is correct because it is the alternative that matches the constitutional, historical, geographical, scientific or economic principle established above. For PYQ interpretation, the distinction between the correct alternative and merely related facts is important. UPSC often places plausible distractors beside the precise statement that matches the underlying rule, chronology, definition or empirical relationship. The answer should therefore be read against the exact wording of the question rather than against a broadly related fact.