Indian Penal Code (IPC 1860) MCQs

Give best response. A voted before he has attained the age of majority prescribed for exercising the right of franchise, believing that he was of age. Here:

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A. A has violated the election law and cannot plead mistake in his defence.
B. A has committed no offence, he can plead mistake of fact in his defence as he believed in good faith to be of age.
C. Ignorance of law is no excuse; ignorance of fact only is an excuse. A is liable because he has committed mistake of law.
D. Since A was a minor not having attained the age of majority he can plead the defence under section 83 of the Penal Code.
✅ The correct answer is option B.

Give incorrect response. The defence of necessity will be available in the following cases :

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A. Browning was charged with reckless driving. He pleaded that he was trying to escape serious injury and illegal arrest by police officers who wished to ambush him.
B. A placed poison in his toddy pots knowing that if taken by a human being it would cause injury, but with the intention of thereby detecting an unknown thief who was in the habit of stealing the toddy from his pots. The toddy was drunk by soldier who purchased it from an unknown vendor.
C. A, a bargeman threw the goods of the plaintiff out of a barge in order to lighten it in a storm and for the safety of the passengers. It was found that the bargeman had overloaded the barge.
D. A sees a tiger attacking B and he feels sure that the tiger will be on him within a minute. A shoots the tiger fully knowing that B and the tiger are so close that he might kill B and not the tiger. A thus kills B.
✅ The correct answer is option B.

Point out incorrect response. The following are ingredients of the defence of necessity under section 81 of the Penal Code :

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A. The act constituting the offence is known by the wrongdoer to be 29 likely to cause harm, but it is done without any criminal intention to cause harm.
B. The act must have been done in good faith.
C. The act must have been done for the purpose of preventing or avoiding other harm to person or property.
D. The act must be one done neither with the intention to cause harm nor with the knowledge to cause harm.
✅ The correct answer is option D.

A Bus driver suddenly without any fault or negligence on his part finds himself in such a position that before he can stop the bus he will run down a school children metador unless he incur the risk of turning the bus running down a Rickshaw poles. He choose second option

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A. He is not guilty as he has good defence under Sec. 81.
B. Cannot say.
C. He is guilty of death by rash and negligent driving.
D. None of the above.
✅ The correct answer is option A.