Law of Crimes Notes | B.A. LL.B. (Five Year Course) Semester 6 | Mumbai University | munotes

Contents

Module I

1. Law of Crimes Is Now the Sanhita 1
2. Crime and Civil Wrong 5
3. How Indian Criminal Law Was Made 9
4. The Act the Law Punishes 14
5. The Guilty Mind 19
6. When the Law Does Not Ask for Intention 24
7. Cause and Consequence 29
8. The Four Stages of a Crime 34
9. Attempt 39
10. Preparation That Is Already an Offence 44
11. The Punishments the Sanhita Allows 48
12. Community Service 51
13. Fine, Default and Commutation 55
14. Solitary Confinement 59
15. Fractions, Several Offences and Repeat Offenders 62
16. Why the State Punishes 67
17. The Death Penalty 72
18. Negligence in the Criminal Law 78
19. Causing Death by Negligence 83
20. The Sanhita and the Computer 88
21. Cyber Crime Outside the Sanhita 92

Module II

1. Extent and Operation 97
2. The Words the Sanhita Defines 102
3. Property, Dishonesty and Documents Defined 107
4. The General Explanations 111
5. Common Intention 116
6. Common Object and How It Differs 121
7. Gang Rape and Dacoity as Joint Liability 127
8. The General Exceptions and Who Must Prove Them 131
9. Bound or Justified by Law 135
10. Accident 140
11. Necessity 143
12. The Age of Criminal Responsibility 147
13. Unsoundness of Mind 151
14. Intoxication 156
15. Consent 161
16. Good Faith, Compulsion and Trifles 166
17. The Right of Private Defence 170
18. When Private Defence May Kill 176
19. Private Defence of Property 180
20. Abetment 185
21. Abetment Across Borders 189
22. Punishing the Abettor 192
23. Concealing a Design 197
24. Criminal Conspiracy 201

Module III

1. Waging War Against India 206
2. Sovereignty, Unity and Integrity 210
3. Assaulting the President or a Governor 214
4. Offences Against Friendly Foreign States 217
5. Prisoners of State and of War 220
6. Mutiny, Desertion and Insubordination 224
7. Unlawful Assembly 228
8. Rioting and Provocation 233
9. Affray 238
10. Promoting Enmity Between Groups 241
11. Public Servants Who Break the Law 245
12. Personating a Public Servant 250
13. Avoiding Summons and Process 254
14. Refusing to Produce or to Answer 258
15. Obstructing a Public Servant 262
16. Threatening a Public Servant 266
17. Giving and Fabricating False Evidence 270
18. False Certificates and Declarations 275
19. Destroying Evidence and Screening an Offender 279
20. Fraud on the Court and on Execution 283
21. False Charges and Harbouring 287
22. Public Servants Who Shield Offenders 293
23. Escape, Rescue and Failure to Apprehend 299
24. Insulting the Court and Jumping Bail 306
25. Counterfeiting Coin and Currency 313
26. Government Stamps 322
27. Weights and Measures, and What Became of Them 330
28. Culpable Homicide and Murder 336
29. Punishment for Murder and for Culpable Homicide 350
30. Abetment of Suicide 360
31. Attempt to Murder 366
32. Organised Crime 373
33. Terrorist Act 381
34. Hurt and Grievous Hurt 390
35. Aggravated Hurt 398
36. Acid Attacks 408
37. Wrongful Restraint and Wrongful Confinement 414
38. Force, Criminal Force and Assault 422
39. Aggravated Assault 431
40. Kidnapping and Abduction 438
41. Aggravated Kidnapping 445
42. Trafficking and Forced Labour 454
43. Rape 461
44. Aggravated Rape and Gang Rape 469
45. Rape by a Husband or by a Person in Authority 476
46. Protecting the Victim's Identity 484
47. Outraging Modesty and Sexual Harassment 490
48. Voyeurism and Stalking 496
49. Miscarriage and the Unborn Child 503
50. Offences Against Children 510

Module IV

1. Bribery and Undue Influence at Elections 518
2. False Statements and Election Accounts 525
3. Public Nuisance 531
4. Spreading Infection 536
5. Adulterated Food and Drugs 541
6. Fouling Water and Air 547
7. Rash Driving and Rash Navigation 551
8. Negligence with Dangerous Things 557
9. Obscenity 562
10. Lotteries 568
11. Offences Relating to Religion 572
12. Theft 579
13. Snatching and Aggravated Theft 586
14. Extortion 592
15. Robbery and Dacoity 598
16. Misappropriation 605
17. Criminal Breach of Trust 611
18. Stolen Property 617
19. Cheating 622
20. Fraudulent Deeds and Dispositions 629
21. Mischief 636
22. Criminal Trespass 645
23. Forgery 655
24. Using and Possessing Forged Documents 665
25. Counterfeit Seals and False Accounts 671
26. Property Marks 680
27. Offences Relating to Marriage 690
28. Dowry Death 700
29. Cruelty by a Husband or His Relatives 707
30. Defamation 715
31. Criminal Intimidation 726
32. Insult, Public Mischief and Annoyance 733
33. The Helpless Person Left Unattended 743
34. What the Sanhita Repealed and What It Saved 749