Top 1000+ Solved Indian Penal Code (IPC 1860) MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Which one of the following statements is true in relation to the offence of abetment?
a. It is not necessary that the offence for which abetment is alleged should have been committed.
b. Unless an offence is successfully committed, there is no question of abetment
c. For the offence of abetment to be established, the abettor should have been proved to have done something at the time.
d. For the offence of abetment to be established, the abettor should have been proved to have done something at the time of commission of the offence itself to help its commission.
Q. The offence of criminal conspiracy lies not in doing the act or effecting the purposes for which the conspiracy is formed but in the forming of the scheme between the parties. A criminal conspiracy consists of:
a. An intentional act of one person with the connivance of another
b. An agreement of two or more persons to do an unlawful act or a lawful act by unlawful means.
c. Common intention of two or more persons to achieve an unlawful object
d. Two or more persons inducing a minor to commit an offence.
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 cannot be held liable.
d. An abettor is liable for all the likely consequences for his statement.
Q. Which one of the following statement is correct?
a. In conspiracy, there is not 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. Give incorrect response.A person abets the doing of a thing who :
a. Intentionally aids, by any act or illegal omission the doing of that thing.
b. Instigates any person to do that thing.
c. Instigates any person to do a thing which must also be done.
d. Engages with one or more other person or persons in any conspiracy for the doing of that thing, if an act or illegal omission takes place in pursuance of that conspiracy and in order to the doing of that thing.
Q. Give best response. A and B have been married for some time. Due to acute financial difficulties they decide to commit suicide. A procures some poison which both of them take. But A, the husband survives whereas B, the wife dies as a result of taking the poison. In this case :
a. A is liable for abetment. A by deciding to commit suicide with his wife has abetted her by counselling to commit suicide.
b. A is liable for murder and not for abetment. Where the parties mutually agreed to commit suicide, and one only accomplished that object the survivor will be guilty of murder and not for abetment only.
c. A is neither liable for murder not for abetment but attempting to murder his wife.
d. A is liable for murder as well as for abetment of murder.
Q. Give correct response. A concerts with B a plan of poisoning Z. It is agreed that A shall administer the poison. B then explains the plan to C mentioning that a third person is to administer the poison, but without mentioning A’s name. C agrees to procure the poison, and procures and delivers it to B for the purpose of its being used in the manner explained. A administers the poison; Z dies in consequence. In this case C’s liability is as follows :
a. C will not be liable for abetment by conspiracy because C can only be held liable if he had concerted with A and B.
b. C would be liable for attempting to commit murder but not for committing murder because the poison was administered by A.
c. C is not liable for murder because he never conspired with A.
d. Though A and C have not conspire together yet C has been engaged in the conspiracy in pursuance of which Z has been murdere C has, therefore, abetted the offence of murder and would be liable to the punishment of murder.
Q. Give best response. A suggests B to give false evidence. B in consequence of the suggestion commits that offence :
a. A is guilty of abetting the offence and is liable to the same punishment as B because mere suggestion amounts to instigation.
b. A is guilty of abetting the offence committed by B because mere suggestion amounts to instigation but B will not be liable for any offence.
c. A commits no offence because mere suggestion to some one to do an illegal act is not an offence but B is liable under section 193 I.P.C.
d. A commits no offence but B is liable for giving false evidence under section 193 I.P.C.
Q. Give incorrect response. Criminal conspiracy means :
a. An agreement between two or more persons to do or cause to be done a legal or an illegal act by improper means.
b. An agreement between two or more persons to do an illegal act.
c. An agreement between two or more persons to do an act, which though not illegal by illegal means.
d. An agreement between two or more persons to commit an offence.
Q. Abetment is caused by :
a. Instigating a person to an offence.
b. Intentionally aiding a person to commit it.
c. Engaging in a conspiracy to commit it.
d. All of these.
Q. Give the correct response
a. It is necessary only in the case person abetting an offence but intentionally aiding another to commit that offence.
b. It is not necessary for the offence of abetment that the act abetted must be committed.
c. Both (a) and (b)
d. None of the above.
Q. The word INSTIGATE means :
a. To do unlawful act.
b. To provoke, to incite.
c. To cheat.
d. None of the above.
Q. Give the correct response :
a. Instigation necessarily connotes same suggestion or support or stimulates whether passive or active.
b. Advice per se does not necessarily amount to instigation.
c. Both (a) and (b).
d. None of the above.
Q. Give the correct response :
a. It is necessary to concert such person.
b. It is not sufficient if he engages in the conspiracy.
c. It is not necessary that abettor should concert the offence with the person who commits it.
d. None of the above.
Q. Give the correct response :
a. Conspiracy in S.120A is mere agreement to commit and offence.
b. Instigation by engaging in conspiracy requires an act or illegal omission.
c. Both (a) and (b).
d. None of the above.