LLM Group 5 Criminal Law and Criminal Administration Criminal Jurisprudence Solved Question Papers with Answers 2015 to 2026 - Mumbai University | munotes

Criminal Jurisprudence is Paper I of LLM Group V, Criminal Law and Criminal Administration, subject code 76017, and the first thing to settle is how many papers this folder actually holds. Nine files are listed and they are eleven printed papers. The file named 2018 is two complete and different hundred mark papers, Q.P. Code 38070 on page one and printer's form 60349 on page two, each footed Page 1 of 1. The file named 2019 is the same, form 78244 with its Marathi on page one and form 68950 on page two. The file named 2022 is five pages, and its fifth page is not part of the paper at all: pages one to four are the paper sat on 2 June 2022 and page five is printer's form 20641 sat on 25 January 2023, which the barcodes settle, since the first four pages carry one barcode and the fifth another. And the file named 2016 is the same scan as the file named 2015, identical pixel for pixel when both are rendered, so one sitting has been filed under two years; the printer's form BB-Con. 1658-15 dates it to 2015, and because it is one paper rather than two, both addresses carry the same seven answers. That leaves eleven distinct printed papers and ninety seven questions.

Two subjects are set on ten of the eleven papers, which is as concentrated as any folder in this course. Private defence draws eleven questions across the folder and group liability eleven. After those come the International Criminal Court in nine papers with ten questions, the stages of crime in nine papers with nine questions, decriminalisation in nine with nine, mens rea in eight with nine, the general exceptions in eight with nine, and strict and vicarious liability in seven with seven. Ignorance of law and abetment appear in five papers each, theories of punishment and the presumption of innocence in three each.

Eleven of the questions in this folder are printed more than once, word for word, and between them they account for twenty eight of the ninety seven. The principle of group liability with the Postmaster case is set in identical words on four papers; the International Criminal Court and its organs, the stages of crime, the general exceptions with any three discussed, and group liability with relevant case laws are each set in identical words on three. The same question gets the same answer here, because a candidate sitting either paper writes the same thing, so those twenty eight questions carry eleven distinct answers between them. What that means for you is that a little under a third of this folder is already revision by the time you have read two papers.

That produces the most useful fact in this note, and it was computed by testing every combination of topics against every paper rather than estimated. No set of five topics will answer the four questions you have to write on all eleven papers. Exactly two sets of six will, and both of them contain decriminalisation, private defence, the general exceptions, group liability and mens rea; the sixth member is either the International Criminal Court or the stages of crime. Prepare those six and you can write four answers on any paper in this folder.

The shape is the same on ten of the eleven papers: three hours, one hundred marks, seven questions, attempt any four, all questions carry equal marks. Every question is therefore worth twenty five and each answer has about forty five minutes. No paper prints twenty five against a question, which unsettles students who expect to see it, and the figure is the paper's own arithmetic. The eleventh paper is the exception and it is a large one. The paper sat on 2 June 2022 runs three hours thirty minutes and is split in two, Part A of fifteen short questions of which any ten are to be answered at three marks each, and Part B of twelve descriptive questions of which any seven are to be answered at ten marks each. Thirty and seventy make the hundred, and both parts print their marks, so nothing there is derived. A candidate who prepares only the twenty five mark shape will find twenty seven questions on that paper written to a completely different scale.

One change dates every textbook on this subject and it matters here more than in any other paper of the group. The Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Evidence Act were replaced on 1 July 2024 by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. Nine of the eleven papers here were sat before that date and every one of them is written in Penal Code numbering, three of them citing sections 76 to 106 in the stem itself. The general exceptions are now sections 14 to 44, private defence sections 34 to 44, abetment sections 45 to 60, conspiracy section 61 and the residuary attempt section 62. The trap is common intention: it is no longer a section of its own but section 3(5), a sub-section of the general explanations clause, and there is a section 34 in the Sanhita which is Things done in private defence. Common object is section 190 and unlawful assembly section 189.

Section 377 is named in the stem of four papers and its history is four steps rather than the two most answers give. The Delhi High Court read it down in Naz Foundation in 2009; the Supreme Court restored it in full in Suresh Kumar Koushal in December 2013 on the reasoning that only a minuscule fraction of the population was affected; a Constitution Bench overruled that in Navtej Singh Johar in September 2018 and read the section down for consenting adults; and then the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita re-enacted nothing in its place. The fourth step is the one worth the marks. Navtej did not strike the section out, and it expressly preserved section 377 for non-consensual acts, for acts with minors and for bestiality, so that until 2024 it was the only provision under which the non-consensual penetrative assault of an adult male could be charged. When the Sanhita came into force it took that residue with it, and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs had recommended keeping a provision for exactly those cases.

Four printing faults are worth knowing so that you do not think you have misread. Printer's form 78244 of 2019 contradicts itself across its two languages: the English N.B. asks for any two questions and its own Marathi half asks for any four, and since ten of the eleven papers say four and the paper is worth a hundred marks, the English is the slip. Q.P. Code 38070 of 2018 letters the notes in its first question a and b and then continues the same sequence in its second question with c and d rather than starting again, and form 60349 does the same across three questions with A to F. Form 84570 of 2024-2025 prints its question numeral four different ways in seven questions, Q.1. and Q.2. and Q. 3. and Q. 4 among them. And the paper sat on 27 June 2023 carries no printer's form number at the foot at all, which is the only thing distinguishing it from form 20641 of January the same year, a paper it overlaps with heavily but does not repeat.

Read the 2025-2026 paper first, because it is the only one written after the new codes and it is set differently. It drops the Indian Penal Code from its stems entirely, asking instead what decriminalisation is and how it reflects the evolving nature of criminal law, and it is the only paper in the folder that prints a third instruction, to cite relevant case laws wherever required. Four papers name the Postmaster case in the stem itself, which is Barendra Kumar Ghose v. King Emperor of 1925, where a man who stood at the door of a sub-post office in Bengal and fired no shot was convicted of murder with the aid of common intention; the examiner who names it wants the facts and not the citation. And the questions that ask you to enumerate the general exceptions and then discuss any three are marked in two parts, so a candidate who discusses three exceptions beautifully and never lists the rest has answered half the question.

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