Top 1000+ Solved Indian Penal Code (IPC 1860) MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Give best response. The liability to conviction of an individual depends not only on his having done some outward acts which the law forbids but on his having done them in a certain frame of mind or with a certain will. Exceptions to this general rule are strict liability offences which mean that:
a. Crimes not requiring any kind of fault or guilty mind on the part of the accused in doing the act constituting the offence but the doing of the act forbidden alone holds one responsible for it.
b. Crimes requiring some fault on the part of another but not the accused himself.
c. Crimes though not committed with some guilty intention but are acts in which the accused has acquiesced or connived or is negligent or reckless in some manner.
d. Crimes where a person is not himself guilty in so far as the actual commission of the act constituting the offences is concerned but he has either authorised the doing of the act or has failed to take precautions to prevent it.
Q. Give correct response. A Football pool promoter employed about a large number of collectors and instructed them that it was illegal to collect money until after the matches had been played and also that credit be always given until this event. One of the collectors accepted money at the investment:
a. The pool promoter was guilty.
b. The Pool promoter was not guilty of an offence.
c. Collector was guilty.
d. Both were guilty.
Q. Give best response.Vicarious liability means :
a. Liability of a person for the fault of some one else.
b. Liability without any kind of fault on the part of any body, but simple doing of an act forbidden by law or abstaining to do something which one is required by law to do.
c. Vicarious liability can only arise for wrongs committed by some one else provided that the accused has previously authorised or assented to the causing of the wrong or has failed to take precaution to prevent the commission of it.
d. He only is vicariously liable who permits the act to be done or who fails to prevent the commission of an act forbidden by law.
Q. Give correct response. In Allen v. Whitehead, the defendant, an occupier and licensee of a refreshment house employed a manager for running the refreshment house. He used to visit it only once or twice a week. He had given express instructions to the manager that no prostitutes were to be allowed to congregate on the premises of the house. The manager, inspite of his instructions to the contrary, allowed some women, whom he knew to be prostitutes, to congregate on the premises. The defendant had no personal knowledge of it. Held that:
a. The defendant was not liable but the manger was liable because the defendant had given express instructions to the manger not to allow prostitutes to congregate on his premises.
b. The defendant was not liable for the offence of allowing prostitutes to congregate on his premises because he had no knowledge about it.
c. The defendant was held vicariously liable for knowingly suffering prostitutes to meet and remain in the refreshment house.
d. None of the above answers is correct.
Q. Give best response about the justification of vicarious liability in crimes.
a. The justification of the doctrine of vicarious liability is based on public policy that a person may properly be punished for the crime of his subordinate servants, or agents because the threat of such punishment may induce him and others to exercise supervision over the subordinates and to make efforts to prevent the commission of the crime.
b. The expectation that the vicarious punishment of those whom he holds dear will deter the criminal himself.
c. Vicarious liability is necessary because the servants pocket is usually too shallow to bear the damages that he may negligently occasion.
d. It is more convenient to punish the master for his failure to prevent the servant from committing unauthorized crimes.
Q. The word ‘takes’ in Section 361 of IPC signifies:
a. Taking by force
b. Taking by fraud
c. Physical taking
d. All of the above.
Q. Which one of the following is an inchoate crime?
a. Public nuisance
b. Criminal attempt
c. Unlawful assembly
d. Riot.
Q. Which is an instance of criminal attempt?
a. A procures color with an intent to make false coins
b. A is in possession of some obscene photographs and he thought of publishing them
c. A, with an intent to kill B, administers sugar thinking it to be poison-powder.
d. None of the above.
Q. Defamation is related with:
a. Character of a person
b. Reputation of a person
c. Both (a) and (b)
d. None of the above.
Q. The injury contemplated Under Section 503 is:
a. Illegal harm
b. Legal harm
c. Legal or illegal harm
d. All of these.
Q. Section 511 does not apply in case of
a. Attempt of riot
b. Attempt of murder
c. Attempt of theft
d. None.
Q. Give the correct response
a. An attempt is distinct from mere intention to commit offence.
b. Attempt is the direct movement towards the commission of an offence.
c. None (a) and (b).
d. None of the above.
Q. Mere preparations of which of the following offence is not punishable_
a. To commit dacoity.
b. To commit depredations on the territories of any country.
c. Abetment of murder.
d. Wage was against govt. of India.
Q. A successful attempt of which of the following is not punishable ____
a. Dacoity.
b. Suicide.
c. Murder.
d. Kidnapping.
Q. A makes an attempt to pick the pocket of Z by thrusting his hand in to the pocket of Z, butfinds it empty. A is guilty of
a. Pech of theft.
b. Attempt of theft.
c. Theft.
d. Intention of theft.