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The law in these answers is stated as at October 2026. The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Sakshya Adhiniyam replaced the IPC, the CrPC and the Evidence Act on 1 July 2024, so older papers that cite the old sections are answered under the new ones. The Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 repealed the Act of 2000 (s.111). The Maharashtra Prisons (Furlough and Parole) Rules, 2024 superseded the Rules of 1959, and on 4 May 2026 the Bombay High Court struck down their requirement of one year of actual imprisonment before regular parole (Vinodkumar Chellappan Pillai v. State of Maharashtra). Food adulteration now falls under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, which repealed the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954.
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The questions below are the paper as the University of Mumbai set it at the May 2025 - 60/40 examination, in the order it was set.
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The Paper as Set
The questions in this volume are the questions asked at the May 2025 - 60/40 examination, reproduced as the University of Mumbai set them, in the order it set them. Nothing has been reworded, added or left out. Only the answers are ours. See the original question paper.
Duration 2 hours · Total marks 60 · 22 questions answered
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- N.B: 1. All questions are compulsory. 2. Figures to the right indicate full marks. 3. Write relevant case laws wherever necessary.
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Q.1
Q.1: Answer in not more than two sentences, any six
12 Marks - 2 marks each
(a)What do you mean by pyromania?[2]
Answer
Pyromania is a mental disorder in which a person repeatedly fails to resist strong urges to set fires, without any ordinary motive. The World Health Organization's classification, ICD-11 (code 6C70), describes it as "a recurrent failure to control strong impulses to set fires".
Its marks:
- No apparent motive. The fire is not set for "monetary gain, revenge, sabotage, political statement, attracting recognition".
- Fascination with fire. The person shows a "persistent fascination or preoccupation with fire".
- Tension and relief. Tension or arousal rises before the act, and pleasure or relief follows it.
- Not explained by another condition, such as a disorder of intellectual development, a manic episode or intoxication.
The older classification, ICD-10, called it "pathological fire setting". William Healy (1915) warned that the word was "often unwarrantably employed", because most arson has an ordinary motive, such as insurance money or revenge.
The law. Pyromania is a condition, not a defence. Setting fire to property with intent or knowledge of damage is mischief by fire (BNS s.326(f)), punishable with up to seven years. The fire-setter is excused only under BNS s.22: if he was incapable of knowing the nature of the act, or that it was wrong or contrary to law. Otherwise the condition matters for sentence and treatment.
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