Multiple choice

Directions: Read Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and with the help of the codes given below, find the correct explanation:

Assertion (A): Nullum Crimen is an injunction to the legislature, not to implicate all the suspected persons to be prosecuted. Reason (R): To avoid impossibility and to settle the question, the legislature must have to use administrative ruling.

  1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

  2. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

  3. (A) is correct, but (R) is false.

  4. (A) is false, but (R) is true.
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Explanation

Nullum crimen sine lege is the moral principle in criminal law and international criminal law that a person cannot or should not face criminal punishment, except for an act that was criminalised by law before he/she performed the act.

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