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

This folder holds nine uploads and they are eleven printed papers. The 2018 scan carries Q.P. Code 32884 on page one and printer's form 57050 on page two, and the 2019 scan carries form 68955 on page one and form 76127 on pages two and three, so two of the nine uploads are two complete and different papers each rather than a paper and its Marathi. Two further files needed sorting out. One, filed as 2022, rendered pixel identical to the 2019 scan page for page and has been retired, the sibling subjects in this Group each holding a genuinely different 2022 paper, so the misfiled label was the 2022 one. The other, form 20135, spent time filed under a different subject in this Group before being moved here and titled 2023 Set 2; it was sat on 16 January 2023, which makes it the earlier of the two 2023 sittings, since form 40313 was sat on 4 December 2023. Count the printed papers, not the files, before planning any revision.

Three topics are set on every one of the eleven printed papers: the multiple factor theory of crime, the schools of criminology, and the Prevention of Corruption Act with the outcome of the Antulay case. White collar crime is on ten of the eleven, the Commissions of Inquiry Act with the Lentin Commission Report on nine, and the Press Council on eight. Nothing else comes close, and a candidate who prepares only those five topics can attempt four questions on most papers in the folder.

We mapped all seventy seven printed questions to topics and then tested every combination against all eleven papers, requiring four answerable questions on each. No set of five topics works. Six is the smallest that does, and fifty seven different sets of six work, so unlike some subjects there is no single unique revision list here. What the test does show is that exactly one topic appears in every one of those fifty seven sets: the Prevention of Corruption Act. It is the only unavoidable topic in the folder.

Only sixty of the seventy seven printed questions are distinct. Thirteen questions are printed word for word more than once. One is set four times, on the 2016, 2018, 2023 and 2023 Set 2 papers: discuss in detail the classical and neo classical schools of criminology. Two more are set three times each: the Commissions of Inquiry Act with the Lentin Report, and the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act with the Antulay outcome. Two of those repeats fall inside a single scan, because the scan holds two papers, so the 2018 volume prints the Antulay question twice and the 2019 volume prints the Lentin question twice. Each is answered here in full and independently, with a different structure, because a candidate sits a paper and not a volume.

The paper changed shape in the last three sittings and the older papers will mislead you about length. Across the eight papers from 2015 to 2023 a printed question averages between ten and fifteen words; on form 95638 sat 17 November 2025 and on forms 16767 and 16766 sat 8 and 17 July 2026 it averages twenty one to twenty three, because each question now carries two or three limbs. Those three papers also add a third instruction to the N.B. that the older ones do not have, 'Cite relevant case laws wherever required', so an answer of the kind that passed in 2016 will not pass on the current paper.

Six of the seventy seven questions ask what the outcome of the Antulay case was, and the answer is not a conviction. The prosecution began in 1981, produced three Constitution Bench judgments, on whether a Member of the Legislative Assembly is a public servant in 1984, on the Supreme Court's power to undo its own transfer order in 1988, and on the right to a speedy trial in 1992, and ended after more than fifteen years in an acquittal for want of evidence. State that flatly; it is what the question asks for.

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