CLAT PG criminal_law — practice questions
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Practice CLAT PG criminal_law in the app →Under Section 299 IPC, culpable homicide is committed by causing death by an act done withSection 300 IPC defines murder. Murder is culpable homicide that falls within the four enumerated clauses of sSection 76 IPC provides that an act is not an offence if done by a personUnder Section 82 IPC, no act is an offence if done by a childSection 84 IPC (insanity) provides that nothing is an offence done by a person who, at the time of doing it, bSection 378 IPC defines theft. The essential ingredients includeSection 383 IPC defines 'extortion'. The KEY distinction from theft is that extortion requiresUnder Section 390 IPC, every robbery is eitherSection 391 IPC: dacoity is robbery committed conjointly bySection 80 IPC (accident) provides that nothing is an offence which is done by accident or misfortune ANDSection 81 IPC (necessity) provides a defence where the act is done to avoid 'OTHER HARM' to person or propertSection 96 IPC declares that nothing is an offence done in the exercise ofUnder Section 100 IPC, the right of private defence of the body EXTENDS to causing death of the assailant onlySection 120A IPC defines criminal conspiracy. The agreement must be toSec 84 IPC ('McNaughten Rules' in Indian form) requires that the accused be incapable of knowing 'the nature oSection 86 IPC modifies the intoxication defence. Voluntary intoxication isException 4 to Section 300 (sudden fight) reduces murder to culpable homicide not amounting to murder IF the aException 1 to Section 300 (grave and sudden provocation) is unavailable ifSection 107 IPC defines abetment as instigating, engaging in conspiracy to commit, or intentionally aiding. SeSection 320 IPC enumerates 'grievous hurt' in eight categories. Which of the following is NOT among the enumerUnder Indian criminal jurisprudence, 'mens rea' is sometimes excluded byIn Virsa Singh v State of Punjab (1958), the Supreme Court interpreted s300 'thirdly' (intention to cause bodiSection 96 to 106 (private defence) embeds a 'reasonable apprehension' standard. Which statement is MOST accurSec 300 'fourthly' criminalises an act done with knowledge that it is SO imminently dangerous that it must in Section 90 IPC explains that consent given under fear or misconception is NOT consent. In a CLAT-style fact pa