A. A is guilty of criminal conspiracy
B. A is guilty of criminal assault
C. A is guilty of abetment by instigation
D. None of the above
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Indian Penal Code (IPC 1860) MCQs
The right of P.D. of property against robbery continues as long as :
A. Offender causes or attempts to cause to any person death or wrongful restrain.
B. Offender causes or attempts to cause to any person death.
C. Offender causes or attempts to cause to any person death or hurt or wrong-full restraint.
D. None of the above.
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Under Indian Penal Code, there can be abetment to:
A. A person of unsound mind
B. An infant
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. All of the above.
✅ The correct answer is option C.
A instigates B to murder C. B refuses to do so. Under IPC:
A. A is guilty of abetting B
B. A is not guilty of abetting B
C. A is not guilty as C is not murdered
D. None of the above
✅ The correct answer is option A.
A, a public officer is authorized by warrant to apprehend B. Z, knowing the fact C is not B willfully represent to A, C to be B.
A. A abets by instigation apprehension of C.
B. A is guilty to cause apprehension.
C. Z abets by instigation apprehension of C.
D. None of the above.
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Point out incorrect response. The exercise of the right of private defence under the Penal Code is subject to the following limitations as contained in section 99 of the code :
A. If the right of private defence is exceeded by the person exercising such right, the other party apprehended shall also have the right of private defence.
B. There is no right of private defence against an act done by public servant acting in good faith under colour of his office unless it causes apprehension of death or grievous hurt.
C. The right of private defence in no case extends to the inflicting of more harm than it is necessary to inflict for the purposes of defence.
D. There is no right of private defence in cases in which there is time to have recourse to the protection of public authorities.
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Point out incorrect response. The right of private defence of property extends to the voluntarily causing of death if the offence apprehended be of the following description:
A. House trespass under such circumstances as may be reasonably cause the apprehension of death or grievous hurt.
B. Theft under such circumstances as may reasonably cause the apprehension of death or grievous hurt.
C. Mischief under such circumstances as may reasonably cause the apprehension of death or grievous hurt.
D. Public nuisance under such circumstances as may reasonably cause the apprehension of death or grievous hurt.
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Point out incorrect response. The right of private defence of body extends to the causing of death if the offence which occasions the exercise of the right of private defence is of the following description :
A. An assault with the intention kidnapping or abducting.
B. An assault with the intention of wrongfully restraining a person.
C. An assault with the intention of committing rape.
D. An assault with the intention of gratifying unnatural lust.
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Point out incorrect response. In order to avail the defence under section 94 I.P.C. the following conditions must be fulfilled.
A. Murder and offences against the State punishable with death are the two exceptions to the defence of compulsion as contained in section 94 I.P.C.
B. Act must be done by a person who is compelled to do it by threats.
C. The threat must be such, which at the time of doing of the act, reasonably causes the apprehension of instant death to that person.
D. However the person doing the act did not of his own or from reasonable apprehension of any harm to himself, place himself in the situation by which he became subject to such constraint.
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Give correct response. A is attacked by a mob who attempt to murder him. He cannot effectually exercise his right of private defence without firing on the mob and he cannot fire without risk of harming children who are mingled with the mob. One of the children is killed by such firing. In this case:
A. A is liable for committing only culpable homicide not amounting to murder because he did not intend to cause death but death was caused in doing an act in the exercise of his right of private defence and this right was exceeded.
B. A is liable for committing murder because he knew that his act was dangerous and some one was very likely to be killed.
C. A is not liable for murder because the law relating to the right of private defence of body permits causing of any harm in the exercise of right of private defence provided that the apprehension was either of death or of grievous hurt.
D. A commits no offence because section 106 of the Penal Code permits taking of risk of causing any harm to innocent persons, by doing an act in the exercise of the right of private defence against an assault which reasonably causes the apprehension of death.
✅ The correct answer is option D.