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Find the part of the sentence that contains an error:

Rarely had the court encountered a petition (1) / so devoid of legal merit, nor so conspicuously intended (2) / to attract media attention rather than judicial remedy. (3) / No error (4)

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SSC CGL 2025 Tier 2 Paper 1 Question Paper (19-Jan-2026)
The correct answer is

(2)

Segment (2) contains "so devoid of legal merit, nor so conspicuously intended". The correlative nor requires a preceding neither (or another negative element it can pair with). With "so... so..." the correct connector is or: "so devoid of legal merit, or so conspicuously intended".

Hence the error lies in segment (2).

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