UPSC Civil Services 2018 Prelims General Studies Paper I

NCERT Political Science Textbook Class 11 ch.6 Judiciary, page 125
● This idea of rule of law implies that all individuals rich and poor, men or women, forward or backward castes - are subjected to the same law. So, #2 is right. (Equality before the law)
●The principal role of the judiciary is to protect rule of law and ensure supremacy of law. It safeguards rights of the individual...and ensures that democracy does not give way to individual or group dictatorship. So, it also means #1 and #4 are right.
● Statement #3 is irrelevant, so by elimination we are left with Option (C)