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Consider the following statements:

Quo-warranto is a very powerful instrument for safeguarding against the usurpation of public offices.
A High Court can issue a mandamus to compel a court or judicial tribunal to exercise its jurisdiction when it has refused to exercise it.

Which of the statement given above is/are correct?

Only1

Only2

Both 1 and2

Neither 1 nor2

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Explanation:

Both 1 and2

Notwithstanding anything in Article 32 every High Court shall have powers, throughout the territories in relation to which it exercise jurisdiction, to issue to any person or authority, including in appropriate cases, any Government, within those territories directions, orders or writs, including writs in the nature of habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibitions, quo warranto and certiorari, or any of them, for the enforcement of any of the rights conferred by Part III and for any other purpose