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

This folder holds seven scans, and those seven scans hold ten distinct printed papers and ninety questions, running from 2015 to the paper sat on 2 March 2026. Three of the scans carry two complete and different papers each rather than a paper and its Marathi: the 2015 scan holds Q.P. Codes 12221 and 27130, the 2018 scan holds a paper printing no code at all and form 60346, and the 2019 scan holds form 78241 on its first two pages and form 70560 on the third. Count the papers and not the uploads before you plan any revision.

Penal Laws in this Group is not general criminal law, and a candidate who revises the Indian Penal Code alone will not pass it. Counted across all ninety questions, the subject is five special statutes: the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 and the Information Technology Act, 2000, each of which appears on all ten printed papers; the Juvenile Justice Act, which appears on nine of the ten and accounts for twenty four of the ninety questions; and, behind them, the Penal Code chapters on obscenity, religion, elections, sedition and waging war, and public health.

We mapped every one of the ninety questions to a topic and then tested every combination of topics against the nine essay papers, counting a short-notes question as answerable only where the chosen topics cover as many sub-items as the paper requires. No set of four topics answers four questions on all nine papers. Exactly one set of five does: election offences, the Information Technology Act, Juvenile Justice, MCOCA, and reform of the Penal Code. That is the smallest safe revision list for this subject and it was arrived at by counting, not by eye.

The counter-intuitive part of that finding is worth stating. Juvenile Justice is the single most examined topic in the folder, twenty four questions across nine of the ten papers, and it is still not enough on its own, because the one paper that omits it, the untitled paper on page one of the 2018 scan, is also the paper on which the short-notes question offers Juvenile Justice as only one option of four. Reform of the Penal Code, which looks like a soft topic, is in the minimum set precisely because it is set as a full question on six of the ten papers and can always be written.

One paper is not like the others and you should check which you are sitting. Nine of the ten are 'attempt any four questions, all questions carry equal marks' over three hours for 100 marks, which forces 25 marks a question. The tenth, the 2022 paper, is in two parts: Part A is fifteen short questions of three marks each, any ten, and Part B is twelve descriptive questions of ten marks each, any seven, over three and a half hours. Writing 25-mark answers on that paper wastes most of the time you have.

Two statutes these papers assume are no longer the law, and both change answers. The Indian Penal Code was repealed by section 358 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 on 1 July 2024, so obscenity is now sections 294 to 296, religion sections 298 to 302, elections sections 169 to 177, waging war sections 147 to 150, and sedition has been replaced by section 152. The Juvenile Justice Act, 2000 was repealed by the Act of 2015 on 15 January 2016, so bail is still section 12 but the bar on death and life imprisonment moved from section 16 to section 21. The newest paper in the folder, form 05230, is already written on the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and names it four times.

Finally, a warning about one recurring question. Four of the ten papers ask you to discuss the Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002 in detail, and the 2022 paper asks about the powers of investigating officers under a 'Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2000' which has never existed. That Act was repealed on 21 September 2004, and on the same day its substance was moved into Chapters IV, V and VI of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, which is where the 2024-25 paper now sets it instead. Answer the question asked and say what happened to the Act.

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