Q.Match the following jurisdictions (Original/Appellate/Advisory) to: PoK citizenship-law advisory question; Tamil Nadu-Cauvery dispute; rejected appeal against dam-site eviction.

Each scenario maps to the kind of case that type of jurisdiction is meant to handle: a government seeking an opinion, an inter-State dispute, and an appeal against an earlier decision. …

Matching each scenario to the type of jurisdiction it exercises:

• The government wants to know if it can pass a law about the citizenship status of residents of Pakistan-occupied areas of Jammu and Kashmir — this is the government seeking the Supreme Court's opinion on a matter of public importance and constitutional interpretation before acting, which is exactly what Advisory Jurisdiction covers: the President can refer such a question to the Court, though neither the Court's advice nor the government's acceptance of it is compulsory.
• The Tamil Nadu government wants to approach the Court to resolve the Cauvery river dispute — this is a dispute between two or more States (Tamil Nadu and, in the real Cauvery dispute, Karnataka), which is precisely what Original Jurisdiction is for: only the Supreme Court, and no lower court, can hear such an inter-State dispute directly. …