Top 1000+ Solved Indian Penal Code (IPC 1860) MCQ Questions Answer
Q. What is the age of a child if he is to be exempted from criminal liability?
a. Below 10 years
b. Below 7 years
c. Below 6 years
d. Below 12 years.
Q. Defence of Insanity is developed on which of the following?
a. Automatism
b. Mc. Naughten’s Rules
c. Irresistible impulse
d. Equivocality test.
Q. Section 76 and Section 79 of IPC provide the general exception of:
a. Mistake of law
b. Mistake of fact
c. Both mistake of law and fact
d. Either mistake of law or of fact.
Q. A hangman who hangs the prisoners pursuant to the order of the court is exempt fromcriminal liability by virtue of:
a. Section 76 of IPC
b. Section 78 of IPC
c. Section 77 of IPC
d. Section 80 of IPC
Q. The expression ‘harm’ is used in Section 81 of the Indian Penal Code in the sense of:
a. Hurt
b. Injury or damage
c. Physical injury
d. Moral wrong or evil.
Q. X finds Y alone late in the night at a lonely place. He shows him a revolver and demands his purse, watch and a gold ring. X warns Y that if he does not hand over these things, he would kill him. Fearing injury or death, Y hands over the valuables demanded by X to Y. X is:
a. Guilty of theft because he has caused wrongful loss to Y
b. Guilty of robbery because he has caused wrongful loss to Y by threatening to cause injury or death
c. Guilty of dacoity because he has caused wrongful loss to Y with the help of a firearm
d. Not guilty since Y has given the property voluntarily.
Q. Which one of the following statements is correct?
a. Removing ornaments from a dead body for one’s own use is dishonest misappropriation of property.
b. A partner who uses the car of the firm without permission or consent of other partners is guilty of criminal misappropriation of property
c. A person who takes possession of property which the rightful owner has lost is guilty of criminal misappropriation if he dishonestly converts the property to his own use.
d. A person who found money from a plot of land purchased by him and appropriated it to his own use, has committed the offence of misappropriation of property.
Q. Which one of the following is an essential element of criminal breach of trust?
a. Contractual relationship
b. Transfer of possession
c. Taking possession of the property by fraudulent means
d. Property must be movable.
Q. Under the Indian Penal Code who among the following is liable for committing theft?
a. Child below 7 years of age
b. Child below 8 years of age
c. Child between 7 and 10 years of age
d. Child between 7 and 12 years of age having maturity of understanding.
Q. The essence of sedition is
a. Intention
b. Benefits or gains of the accused
c. Result
d. Both intention and result
Q. Which one of the following statements is NOT correct?
a. Abetment can be committed by mere silence
b. An abettor is liable for abetment even if the abetted act is not committed
c. If abetted person is not liable for committing the abetted act, the abettor too cannot be held liable
d. An abettor is liable for all the likely consequences of his abetment.
Q. Which one of the following statements is correct?
a. In conspiracy there is no distinction between principal and accessory
b. In conspiracy principal and accessory are distinct
c. There has to be a distinction between principal and accessory in all offences
d. None of the above is correct.
Q. Which one of the following will amount to criminal conspiracy?
a. Two or more persons agreed to commit a criminal act in furtherance of their common intention
b. Intention of each of the accused persons is known to the rest of them and is shared
c. Unity of criminal behavior actuated by common consent
d. Agreement to commit an offence even if no step is taken to carry out that agreement.
Q. Consider the following two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R): Assertion (A): There is no liability for an attempt to commit an impossible theft. Reason (R): No criminal liability can be incurred under Section 511 of the Indian Penal Code for an attempt to do an act which, if done will not be an offence. Of the above statements.
a. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
b. Both A and R are true and R is NOT a correct explanation of A
c. A is true but R is false
d. A is false but R is true.
Q. A intending to murder B by poison, purchase poison and mixes the same with a glass of water. He gives the glass to the bearer to serve B. The bearer while approaching B loses balance and the glass drops out of his plate. Which one of the following statements is correct in this context?
a. A has committed no offence
b. A has committed the offence of attempt to commit culpable homicide
c. A has committed the offence of abetment
d. A has committed the offence of attempt to murder.