Top 1000+ Solved Indian Penal Code (IPC 1860) MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Which one of the following is not punishable under the Indian Penal Code?
a. Preparation to wage war against the State.
b. Preparation to commit murder.
c. Preparation to commit dacoity.
d. Preparation to commit depredation on the territory of a friendly power.
Q. A scarified his son before his Goddess who according to him appealed him in dreams and asked for the sacrifice. On being charged for murder he set up the plea of unsoundness of mind. Can his plea be sustained?
a. No, because he knew that what he did was wrong and contrary to law.
b. No, because he knew the nature of what he did or what he did was wrong, or contrary to law.
c. Yes, because he was insane inasmuch as he had no sense of reality.
d. Yes, because he was innocent and he had done what he was asked to do by his Goddess.
Q. P was picked up by a gang of robbers in a car from the street. He was given a revolver and asked to shoot at M. When P resisted, a revolver was put on his ear and he was told that if he did not shoot, he would be shot dead. Then P shot M dead. On a charge of murder, P argued that his act was not voluntary nor was there mens rea. P is guilty of:
a. Culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
b. No offence
c. Attempt to commit murder
d. Murder.
Q. Section 300 of the IPC speaks of situations in which if a murder is committed, then it is treated as culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Which one of the following situations is not covered under S. 300, IPC?
a. Exercise of the right of private defence.
b. Exercise of legal powers
c. Exercise of legal powers
d. Sudden fight.
Q. X, a woman, who ran to a well stating that she would jump into it, was caught before she could reach it. Which one of the following statements is correct in this regard?
a. She is not guilty of an attempt to commit suicide although she intended to do so and prepared to carry out that intention yet she might have changed her mind.
b. She is guilty of committing offence of attempt to commit suicide as she categorically declared to do so.
c. She is guilty of no offence as whatever was done by her did not amount to preparation for committing suicide.
d. She is guilty of attempt to commit culpable homicide as she attempted to kill herself.
Q. X knows that Y is suffering from enlarged spleen. H gives Y a first blow which ruptures the spleen and cause his death. X being a doctor knows that a moderate blow on that region would rupture the spleen and is likely to cause Y’s death. What is X guilty of?
a. Culpable homicide not amounting to murder as X knew that his act is likely to cause death.
b. Murder as X knew that his act is likely to cause death of Y to whom the injury was inflicted.
c. No offence as the blow would not have caused death of a normal man in ordinary circumstances of the case.
d. An offence other than murder or culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
Q. In which one of the following cases did the Supreme Court of India strike down Section 303of IPC as unconstitutional?
a. Machhi Singh Vs. State of Punjab
b. Bachan Singh Vs. state of Punjab.
c. Santa Singh Vs. State of Punjab.
d. Mithu Vs. State of Punjab.
Q. X instigates Y to murder Z. Y in pursuance of the instigation stabs Z who recovers from thewound. Which one of the following statement is correct?
a. Y is liable for attempt to murder and X is liable for abetment of attempt to murder.
b. Y is guilty of attempt to murder and x is guilty of abetment of murder.
c. Y is guilty of attempt to murder and X is guilty of no offence
d. X is guilty of attempt to murder and Y is guilty of offence.
Q. X with the intention of causing death of Y instigates a child below 7 years of age to mixpoison in the food of Y in the absence of X. Y takes the food and dies. What is X guilty of?
a. No offence
b. Abetment of murder
c. Murder
d. Culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
Q. A is at work with a hatchet: the head flies off and kills a man who is standing by. Whatoffence is committed by A in this situation?
a. A has committed the offence of culpable homicide.
b. A has committed the offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
c. A has committed no offence as it was an accident.
d. A has committed no offence as use of hatchet was a necessary of his livelihoo
Q. The statement “all murders are culpable homicide but all culpable homicide is not murder” is”
a. True
b. Not true
c. Sometimes
d. All of them.
Q. Culpable homicide is described in:
a. Section 302 of IPC
b. Section 307 of IPC
c. Section 299 of IPC
d. None of the above.
Q. Which section of IPC defines murder?
a. Section 302
b. Section 299
c. Section 300
d. None of the above.
Q. If two parties of men armed with deadly weapons deliberately enter into an unlawful fight anddeath takes place:
a. It is homicide
b. It is murder
c. It is not murder
d. None of the above.
Q. Which section of IPC deals with homicide by negligence?
a. Section 302 of IPC
b. Section 307 of IPC
c. Section 304A of IPC
d. None of the above