Origin
1st Law Commission - Lord Macaulay 1834
Prepared draft IPC in 1837
Sir Bernal Peacock and Sir J. W. Colville revised the draft of Indian Penal Code
6th October 1860 it was passed
Effect in India 1st January 1862
Effect in Goa, Daman & Diu and Pondicherry 1st October 1963
Elements of Crime
1. Human Body
2. Mens Rea
3. Actus Reus
4. Injury
Stages of Crime
Intention - Preparation
Commission - Attempt
General Exceptions
1. Mistake of Fact - 76, 79
2. Judicial Acts - 77, 78
3. Accident - 80
4. Necessity - 81
5. Infancy - 82, 83
6. Insanity - 84
7. Intoxication - 85, 86
8. Consent - 87-88
9. Good faith acts - 92
10. Good faith communication - 93
11. Compulsion / Threat - 94
12. Trifling - 95
13. Right of Private Defence - 96-106
Inchoate Crimes
Incomplete crimes having tendency to commit or to indirectly participate in a criminal offence.
1. Abatement
Section 107 - Abatement of a thing
Section 108 - Abetter
2. Criminal Conspiracy
120A - Definition of Criminal Conspiracy
120B - Punishment for Criminal Conspiracy
3. Attempt
511 - Punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment.
Offences against property
Theft, Robbery, Criminal Misappropriation, Cheating, Extortion, Dacoit, Criminal Breach of Trust, Mischief.
Receiving Stolen property - 410 IPC
Property, the possession of which is transferred by theft/ extortion/ robbery or which has been criminal misappropriation or criminal breach of trust.
411 - Dishonestly receiving stolen property
Offences relating to Marriage XX-A
Offences of cruelty by Husband, Relatives.
Defamation (IPC 499-502)
IPC 499 Defamation
Whoever, by words either spoken or intended to be read, or by signs or by visible representations, makes or publishes any imputation concerning any person intending to harm, or knowing or having reason to believe that such imputation will harm, the reputation of such person, is said, except in the cases hereinafter expected, to defame that person.
Exceptions
1. Truth
2. Public conduct of public servants
3. Public Question
4. Publication of court proceedings
5. Merits of case in Court
500 IPC - Punishment for defamation
501 IPC - Printing defamatory matter
502 IPC - Sale of defamatory Matter
Written - Libel - Tort
Remedies
1. Fair Comment
2. Public Interest
3. Privileged Comment
Spoken - Slander - Crime
Remedies
1. Public Welfare
503 IPC Criminal Intimidation
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.
506 IPC Punishment for Criminal Intimidation
- 2 Years imprisonment, fine or both
If threat of grievous hurt or any offence punishable with death
- 7 Years, Fine, or both
510 IPC Misconduct by a drunken person
Note for LLB Entrance Examinations
Muslim Law
Nikah- Muslim Marriage Conditions
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Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act 1956
Hindu Succession Act 1956 Notes
Special Marriage Act 1954 Notes
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