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Criminal Law (UGC/NET)

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In criminal law, a successful prosecution means

  1. acquittal of the accused
  2. conviction of the accused
  3. the accused is discharged unconditionally
  4. punishment to the accused as per law
  5. None of these
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Section 304A does not apply if

  1. death is caused intentionally
  2. the act amounts to culpable homicide
  3. death occurs due to accident
  4. All of the above
  5. None of these
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A public prosecutor filed a case in the court of Judicial Magistrate for the offence under section 498A of the Indian Penal Code.

Which of the following is a correct drafting with regard to the above mentioned offence?

  1. Prosecution to sue the defendant
  2. Plaintiff to prosecute the defendant
  3. Plaintiff to sue the defendant
  4. Prosecutor to prosecute the defendant
  5. None of these
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Unnatural offences like sodomy, buggery and bestiality are punishable under

  1. Section 377
  2. Section 378
  3. Section 376
  4. Section 374
  5. None of these
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Culpable homicide is not murder if it is committed

  1. with the consent of the victim whose age is 12 years
  2. with the consent of the victim who has completed 18 years of age
  3. when the offender is acting under the spell of madness
  4. when the offender is acting in anger
  5. None of these
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following threats does not amount to criminal intimidation?

  1. Threat of injury to reputation
  2. Threat of picketing
  3. Threat of social boycott
  4. Threat of killing
  5. No such threat
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

X has sufficient food. He does not provide any food to a beggar, who later dies of hunger. X is guilty of

  1. no offence
  2. attempt to murder
  3. murder
  4. causing death by rash or negligent act
  5. None of these
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which section of the Indian Penal Code punishes a man (married or unmarried) who induces a woman to become, as she thinks, his wife, but in fact his concubine?

  1. Section 493
  2. Section 494
  3. Section 495
  4. Section 498A
  5. None of these
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Taking or enticing away or concealing or detaining a woman, knowing or having reason to believe her to be married, from her husband in order that she may have illicit intercourse with any man is

  1. abduction
  2. criminal elopement
  3. abduction and rape
  4. prostitution
  5. kidnapping
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Punishment for criminal conspiracy is given in

  1. Section 120B, IPC
  2. Section 120A, IPC
  3. Section 144, CrPC
  4. Section 500, IPC
  5. None of these
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Imprisonment in case of default of payment of fine is

  1. simple
  2. rigorous
  3. simple or rigorous
  4. solitary confinement
  5. Any of the above
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following defences is not available to a person who has committed a criminal act?

  1. Infancy
  2. Self-defence
  3. Self-preservation
  4. Consent of the other party
  5. None of these
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which of the following cases must the punishment be rigorous?

  1. Giving false evidence with the intent to procure conviction of a capital offence
  2. House trespass to commit an offence punishable with death
  3. Robbery
  4. All of the above
  5. None of these
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

‘A’ incites a dog to spring upon Z without Z’s consent. A commits the offence of

  1. using criminal force
  2. criminal intimidation
  3. mischief
  4. criminal assault
  5. None of these
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A person commits an assault if he

  1. makes any gesture or any preparation intending or knowing it to be likely that such gesture or preparation will cause any person present to apprehend that he is about to use criminal force on that person
  2. makes any preparation intending or knowing it to be likely that such preparation will cause any person present to apprehend that he is about to use criminal force on that person
  3. speaks any words intending that such person present to apprehend that he is about to use criminal force to that person
  4. Any of the above
  5. None of these
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Mark the incorrect option.

  1. Like criminal breach of trust and misappropriation, there is wrongful gain or loss in cheating.
  2. In both theft and criminal misappropriation, movable property is involved. In cheating, any property is involved.
  3. In cheating, property is taken out of the possession of another person.
  4. In cheating, dishonest intention starts with the very inception of transaction and in breach of trust when the person receives property legally, but retains or converts it unlawfully.
  5. None of these
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The Information Technology Act, 2000 has not amended which of the following sections of the Indian Penal Code?

  1. Section 464
  2. Section 29A
  3. Section 466
  4. Section 120A
  5. None of these
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A causes miscarriage to B. A is liable for

  1. culpable homicide of the unborn child
  2. murder of unborn child
  3. grievous hurt to B
  4. death by negligence
  5. No offence
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What punishment may be awarded to a person whose act is covered under general exceptions?

  1. No punishment
  2. Half of the punishment prescribed for that offence
  3. One-fourth of the punishment prescribed for that offence
  4. Depends upon the discretion of the court
  5. Any of the above
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Mark the incorrect option.

  1. Mere possession of stolen property is not an offence. It must be received and retained dishonestly and with the knowledge that it is stolen property.
  2. The person who receives or retains stolen property is punished in the same manner as a person who commits theft.
  3. There can be no offence under Section 411 unless a thing stolen falls under Section 410.
  4. “Dishonest retention” of property is the same as “dishonest reception” of it.
  5. None of these
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Use of violence by a member of an assembly of five or more persons in furtherance of common object will constitute

  1. affray
  2. assault
  3. rioting
  4. unlawful assembly
  5. None of these
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Mere preparation to commit a crime is not punishable, yet preparation with intention amounts to

  1. assault
  2. intimidation
  3. extortion
  4. All of the above
  5. Both (1) and (2)
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Voluntary intoxication

  1. makes an offence more serious or increases the gravity of an offence
  2. is a weak defence to a criminal charge
  3. is no excuse for the commission of an offence
  4. reduces the gravity of all the offences
  5. None of these
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following conclusions can be drawn from de minimis non curat lex?

  1. Necessity knows no law.
  2. Nothing is an offence done by a child under 7 years of age.
  3. Every person is liable for his own acts.
  4. Trifling acts do not constitute an offence.
  5. None of these
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which section of the Indian Penal Code makes punishable the forgery of a record in a court of justice or a register of birth, baptism, marriage or burial or a certificate of authority to institute or defend a suit or a power of attorney?

  1. Section 465
  2. Section 466
  3. Section 467
  4. Section 468
  5. Section 469
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