Law of Crimes Notes | B.B.A. LL.B. (Five Years) Semester 5 | SPPU | munotes

Contents

Module I Introduction to Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023

1. Law of Crimes Is Now the Sanhita 1
2. How Indian Criminal Law Was Made 5
3. What the Sanhita Repealed and What It Saved 10
4. The Plan of the Sanhita 18
5. Extent and Operation 22
6. The Words the Sanhita Defines 27
7. Property, Dishonesty and Documents Defined 32
8. The General Explanations 36
9. Common Intention 41
10. Crime and Civil Wrong 46
11. The Act the Law Punishes 50
12. The Guilty Mind 55
13. When the Law Does Not Ask for Intention 60
14. Cause and Consequence 65

Module II General Exceptions (Sections 4 to 44)

1. The Punishments the Sanhita Allows 70
2. Community Service 73
3. Fine, Default and Commutation 77
4. Solitary Confinement 81
5. Fractions, Several Offences and Repeat Offenders 84
6. The General Exceptions and Who Must Prove Them 89
7. Bound or Justified by Law 93
8. Accident 98
9. Necessity 101
10. The Age of Criminal Responsibility 105
11. Unsoundness of Mind 109
12. Intoxication 114
13. Consent 119
14. Good Faith, Compulsion and Trifles 124
15. The Right of Private Defence 128
16. When Private Defence May Kill 134
17. Private Defence of Property 138

Module III Inchoate Crimes (Sections 45-62)

1. The Four Stages of a Crime 143
2. Preparation That Is Already an Offence 148
3. Abetment 152
4. Abetment Across Borders 156
5. Punishing the Abettor 159
6. Concealing a Design 164
7. Criminal Conspiracy 168
8. Attempt 174

Module IV Offenses Against the Human Body

1. Culpable Homicide and Murder 179
2. Punishment for Murder and for Culpable Homicide 193
3. Negligence in the Criminal Law 203
4. Causing Death by Negligence 208
5. Attempt to Murder 213
6. Hurt and Grievous Hurt 220
7. Aggravated Hurt 228
8. Acid Attacks 238
9. Organised Crime 244
10. Terrorist Act 252
11. Wrongful Restraint and Wrongful Confinement 261
12. Force, Criminal Force and Assault 269
13. Aggravated Assault 278
14. Kidnapping and Abduction 285
15. Aggravated Kidnapping 292
16. Trafficking and Forced Labour 301
17. Defamation 308

Module V Offenses Against Women

1. Rape 319
2. Aggravated Rape and Gang Rape 327
3. Gang Rape and Dacoity as Joint Liability 334
4. Rape by a Husband or by a Person in Authority 338
5. Protecting the Victim's Identity 346
6. Outraging Modesty and Sexual Harassment 352
7. Voyeurism and Stalking 359
8. Dowry Death 366
9. Cruelty by a Husband or His Relatives 373

Module VI Offenses Against Property

1. Theft 381
2. Snatching and Aggravated Theft 388
3. Extortion 395
4. Robbery and Dacoity 401
5. Misappropriation 409
6. Criminal Breach of Trust 415
7. Stolen Property 421
8. Cheating 426
9. Fraudulent Deeds and Dispositions 433
10. Mischief 440
11. Criminal Trespass 450

Module VII Offenses Against Public Tranquility

1. Unlawful Assembly 460
2. Common Object and How It Differs 465
3. Rioting and Provocation 471
4. Affray 476
5. Promoting Enmity Between Groups 479

Module VIII Offences against the State.

1. Waging War Against India 483
2. Assaulting the President or a Governor 487
3. Sovereignty, Unity and Integrity 490
4. The Section That Replaced Sedition 494
5. Offences Against Friendly Foreign States 499
6. Prisoners of State and of War 503