Indian Penal Code is the main Criminal Code of India. It is a comprehensive code intended to cover all substantive aspects of criminal law. The Indian Penal Code was drafted in the year 1860 on the recommendations of the first law commission of India established in 1834. Indian Penal Code is the codified law that says what is wrong and what act can be penalized.
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.
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 I degree; PrincipaJ in the II 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 & I 20B; 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, 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 31 l) – 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).