UPHJS Exam, 2019 (Pre)— Important One-liners on Indian Penal Code, 1860
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| Sl. | Contents |
| 1.1 | The preamble of the IPC is—To provide a general Penal Code for India |
| 1.2 | Total Sections in IPC are ?—511 Sections |
| 1.3 | Total chapters in IPC are—23 Chapters |
| 2.1 | A Magistrate exercising jurisdiction in respect of a charge on which he has power only to commit for trial to another Court, is—not a Judge [Illustration to Section 19] |
| 2.2 | Movable property under IPC defined under Section?—Section 22 [The words “movable property” are intended to include corporeal property of every description, except (i) land and (ii) things attached to the earth or (iii) permanently fastened to anything which is attached to the earth] |
| 3.1 | Originally, there were ___kinds of punishment under IPC. Now, there are___kinds of punishment—6; 5 [Section 53] |
| 3.2 | When the offence is punishable with fine only, the nature of imprisonment which the court impose in default of payment of fine shall be—Simple imprisonment [Section 67] |
| 3.3 | Maximum limit of solitary confinement to be?—Three months [Section73] |
| 4.1 | A is at work with a hatchet; the head flies off and kills a man who is standing by. Here, if there was no want of proper caution on the part of A, his act is excusable and not an offence and he has protection under Section—Section 80 |
| 4.2 | Nothing is an offence which is done by a child (doli incapex) under_____ of age?—7 years [Section 82] |
| 4.3 | For defence of intoxication, to escape criminal liability, the intoxication—administered against his will or knowledge [Section 85] |
| 5.1 | The offence of abatement has been dealt with under Chapter—Chapter V |
| 5.2 | When an Act is abetted and a different act is done, the abettor is liable for the act done—in the same manner and to the same extent as if he had directly abetted it [Section 111] |
| 6.1 | Chapter V-A of IPC deals with the—Criminal Conspiracy |
| 6.2 | Criminal conspiracy is punishable under Section—Section 120-B |
| 7.1 | Waging war against the Government of India or attempts to wage such war, or abets the waging of such war is a punishable offence under Section—Section 121 |
| 7.2 | Whoever wages war against the Government of India, or attempts to wage such war, or abets the waging of such war, shall be punished with—Death, or imprisonment for life and shall also be liable to fine [Section 121] |
| 8.1 | Wearing garb or carrying token used by soldier, sailor or airman is a punishable offence under Section—Section 140 |
| 9.1 | For unlawful assembly the number of persons must be—Five or more [Section141] |
| 9.2 | Rioting is defined under Section—Section 146 |
| 10.1 | Whoever, being a public servant, knowingly disobeys any direction of the law as to the way in which he is to conduct himself as such public servant, intending to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will by such disobedience, cause injury to any person is a punishable offence under Section—Section 166 |
| 10.2 | A, being an officer directed by law to take property in execution, in order to satisfy a decree pronounced in Z’s favour by a Court of Justice, knowingly disobeys that direction of law, with the knowledge that he is likely thereby to cause injury to Z. A has committed the offence defined under– Section 166 |
| 11.1 | Offences relating to election has been dealt with under Chapter—Chapter IX-A |
| 12.1 | Contempt of lawful authority of public servant has been dealt with under Chapter—Chapter X |
| 13.1 | Whoever, being legally bound by an oath or by an express provision of law to state the truth, or being bound by law to make a declaration upon any subject, makes any statement which is false, and which he either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true, is said to give—False evidence [Section 191]. |
| 13.2 | Section 195-A (threatening any person to give false evidence) is punishable with— imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both. |
| 14.1 | The terms “coin” and “Indian Coin” has been defined under Section—Section 230 |
| 15.1 | Whoever, fraudulently uses any instrument for weighing which he knows to be false, shall be punished with—Imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both. |
| 16.1 | Public nuisance is defined under Section—Section 268 |
| 17.1 | Offences relating to religion are dealt with under Chapter—Chapter 15 |
| 18.1 | Whether preparation to commit murder is—Not punishable |
| 18.2 | Which Section of IPC has been declared unconstitutional but still exist academically in IPC—Section 303 [Murder by life -convict] |
| 18.3 | An injury not sufficient to cause in the ordinary course of business death but the said injury was inflicted with the knowledge that that it is likely to cause death is punishable under—Section 304 Part II of IPC |
| 18.4 | A hurt becomes grievous hurt, if the suffer is in severe bodily pain or is unable to follow the ordinary pursuits for ______days?—20 days [Section320] |
| 19.1 | Offences relating to property are dealt with under Chapter—Chapter 17 |
| 19.2 | Preparation to commit dacoity is punishable offence under Section—Section 399 |
| 19.3 | The nature of imprisonment for preparation to commit dacoity is—Rigorous imprisonment upto 10 years and fine both. [Section 399] |
| 19.4 | The offence cheating is defined under Section—Section 415 |
| 19.5 | For an offence of cheating, the intention to cheat should be present—From very beginning |
| 20.1 | Forgery has been defined under—Section 463 |
| 21.1 | Whoever, being bound by a lawful contract to attend on or to supply the wants of any person who, by reason of youth, or of unsoundness of mind, or of a disease or bodily weakness, is helpless or incapable of providing for his own safety or of supplying his own wants, voluntarily omits so to do, has committed an offence under Section—Section 491 |
| 22.1 | Every man who by deceit causes any woman who is not lawfully married to him to believe that she is lawfully married to him and to cohabit or have sexual intercourse with him in that belief, shall be punished with—imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine [Section 493] |
| 23.1 | Whoever, being the husband or the relative of the husband of a woman, subjects such woman to cruelty shall be punished with—imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and shall also be liable to fine [Section 498-A] |
| 24.1 | Defamation has been defined under—Section 499 |
| 25.1 | Whoever threatens another with any injury to his person, reputation or property, or to the person or reputation of any one in whom that person is interested, with intent to cause alarm to that person, or to cause that person to do any act which he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do any act which that person is legally entitled to do, as the means of avoiding the execution of such threat, commits—Criminal intimidation [Section 503] |
| 26.1 | A makes an attempt to steal some jewels by breaking open a box, and finds after so opening the box, that there is no jewel in it. He has done an act towards the commission of theft, and therefore is guilty under Section—Section 511 |
| Prepared by team LegalMines. Typographical error, if any, is inadvertent | |
