Objectives:
This course is designed to understand the meaning of crime, methods of controlling them and the
essential principles of criminal liability by a study of a range of offences under the Indian Penal
Code.
Course contents:
UNIT I
General Principles of Crime; Conceptions of Crime; Distinction between Crime and other wrongs under common Law.
Principles of criminal liability, Actus reus and mens rea (also statutory offences) and other maxims;
Variations in liability – Mistake, intoxication, compulsion, legally abnormal persons;
Possible parties to the crime: Principal in the Ist degree; Principal in the IInd degree; Accessories before the fact: Accessories after the fact.
Indian Penal Code: General Explanation: From Section 1 to 5, Sections 6, 7, Sections 21 to 30, 32 to 37 and section 52 & 52A, Punishment: From Sections 53 to 55A, 63, 64, 65, Section 73 to 75.
UNIT -II
General Exceptions: Sections 76 – 106; Abetment: Sections 107 – 120;
Criminal Conspiracy: Sections 120A & 120B; Offences against State: Sections 121 – 130; Offences against the public
tranquility: Sections 141 – 160;
Difference between Section 34 & 149-Offences relating to election: Contempt of lawful Authority and Public Servants (Brief discussion): Sections 172
190.
False evidence: Sections 191- 197.
Sections 208 – 212: Offences relating to coins and Government
Stamps: Sections 230 to 240 & 263A;
Public Nuisance & Private Nuisance: Offences relating to religion: Section 295 – 298.
UNIT -III
Offences affecting human life: (Section 299 to 311) – Hurt, Grievous Hurt – Wrongful restraint • Wrong confinement – Criminal force and Assault.
UNIT -IV
Kidnapping, Abduction
Sexual offences: Rape: custodial rape, marital rape (Sections 375-377)
Offences against property: Theft, robbery and dacoity
Criminal Misappropriation of property
Criminal breach of trust
Receiving of stolen property
Cheating
Fraudulent deeds and disposition of property.
UNIT - V
Mischief
Criminal Trespass
Offences relating to document and property marks
Offences relating to marriage (Sections 493 – 498 A)
Defamation (Sections 499-502)
Criminal intimidation and annoyance and attempt to commit such offences (Sections 506 – 511).
Prescribed Books:
Rathanlal and Dhirajlal, The Indian Penal Code, (New Delhi: Lexis Nexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur 2012)
Turner, Cecil J.W., Kenny’s Outlines of Criminal Law, ( New York: Cambridge University Press 2013).
References Books:
K. D. Gaur, A Text Book on the Indian Penal Code, (New Delhi: Universal Publishing Co., 2012)
K.I Vibhuti, P. S. Achuthan Pillai’s Criminal Law, (Lexis Nexis Butterworths Wadha Nagpur: 2012)
Williams, Glanville Text Book of Criminal Law, (New Delhi: Universal Law Publishing Co.,2012)