Top 1000+ Solved Indian Penal Code (IPC 1860) MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Give correct response. A administers to B a drug in order to procure abortion believing her to be pregnant but in fact she is not pregnant, Held that :
a. A is liable for attempt because the actual commission of the offence was avoided by reason of a fact beyond A’s control i.e. the fact that the lady was not pregnant.
b. A is not liable for attempt. Since the woman was not pregnant, therefore, causing of abortion was a factual impossibility.
c. Since the woman was not pregnant, therefore, A had attempted only a legal impossibility and, therefore, the would not be liable.
d. A is liable for causing hurt by poisoning.
Q. Give incorrect response. A, a woman with a view to poisoning her husband administered to him a substance which she believed to be arsenic but which in fact was sugar. In this case :
a. A is liable for attempt because she attempted to cause death of her husband by such means (i.e. poisoning) which she believed to be capable of causing death.
b. A is liable for attempting to kill her husband because her intention was to kill him by poisoning.
c. A is liable for attempt because her act was towards the commission of the desired offence.
d. A is not liable for attempting to cause death of her husband because A’s act was not towards the commission of the desired offence in as much as the substance administered could never bring about the desired result.
Q. Give best response. Z, a pick-pocket attempts to take the purse of a gentleman who has a loaded pistol in his pocket. The thief touches the pistol and the trigger goes off, the gentleman is shot dead. The liability of the pick-pocket is as follows :
a. Z is liable for murder of the gentleman in whose pocket he has put his hand.
b. Z is liable for attempting to commit homicide.
c. Z is not liable for murder but for pick-pocketing only, because when a person engaged in the commission of an offence causes death by pure accident he shall suffer only the punishment of his offence.
d. Z is liable for murder and will not succeed in his defence of accident under section 80 because accident must be caused while doing a lawful act, in lawful manner by lawful means. Here Z caused death while doing an unlawful act.
Q. Give the correct response.
a. All culpable homicides are murders.
b. All murders are culpable homicide but not vice versa.
c. Both (a) and (b).
d. None of the above.
Q. Homicide is the killing of human being by ______
a. Human being whether lawful or unlawful.
b. Human being whether lawful only.
c. Human being which is unlawful.
d. Any one whether animal.
Q. Culpable Homicide means the causing of death by doing ______
a. An act with the intention of causing such bodily injury as is likely to cause death.
b. An act with the knowledge that it was likely to cause death.
c. An act with the intention of causing death.
d. All of these.
Q. The section 299 has following essentials
a. Such death must have been caused by doing an act.
b. Causing of death of a human being.
c. Both (a) and (b).
d. None of the above.
Q. Give the correct response
a. The offence is complete as soon as a person is killed.
b. It is immaterial if the person whose death has been caused is not the very person whom the accused intended to kill.
c. Both (a) and (b).
d. None of the above.
Q. Under see 299 the connection between act and death caused must be
a. Indirect.
b. Direct.
c. Both (a) and (b).
d. None of the above.
Q. Where bodily injury is sufficient to cause death it _______
a. Matters to find the intention.
b. Is immaterial to find the intention.
c. Intention is implied by the act.
d. None of the above.
Q. The word knowledge under See. 299 is a strong word and
a. A probability.
b. A certainty.
c. Both certainty and probability.
d. None of the above.
Q. Once it is established that an act was a deliberate act and was not the result of accidentrashness or negligence it is obvious that the offence would be ---
a. Murder.
b. Culpable homicide.
c. Attempt to murder.
d. Grievous hurt.
Q. The accused gave the deceased a severe push on the back ____ he fell down on the roadand sustained injuries resulted in his death on the fifth day this was simply a case of
a. Using original force.
b. Murder.
c. Culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
d. Simply hurt.
Q. The accused gave his wife a blow on her head with wooden rod rendering her unconscious. Belowing her to so dead the accused hanged her on a bean by rope in order to lay to foundation of a false defence of suicide and there by caused her death by strangulation is guilty of causing _______
a. Culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
b. Death.
c. Grievous hurt.
d. Hurt.
Q. A struck B on the head a simple blow with a piece of firewood B fell down bleeding from nose and become senseless. A and his wife thought that B was dead hence they placed B on the wooden pyre and set fire to it which caused B’s death. A and his wife are guilty of
a. Simple hurt.
b. Murder.
c. Grievous hurt.
d. None of the above.