Law of Crimes – I (Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023)
Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya · LL.B. Semester 1 · LAW-CC-115
Unit I — General
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 · Background · Objective · Salient features of BNS · Rationale of the changes in Criminal Law · 2. Crime and Essentials of criminal liability · Crime- nature and definitions · Difference between criminal wrong and civil wrong · Elements of Crime (Mens rea & Actus reus) · Recent trends to fix liability without mens rea in certain socio-economic offences. · 3. Stages of a crime · Guilty intention · Preparation · Preparation not punishable and its exceptions · Attempt: · Attempt when punishable- specific provisions of BNS · Theories for determining what constitutes attempt- proximity, equivocally and social danger · Impossible attempt.
Unit II — Unit II (untitled in print)
1. Definition clause (Section-2): Dishonestly, Fraudulently, Document, Good faith, Gender, Injury, Illegal, Offence, Voluntarily, Wrongful gain, Wrongful loss. · 2. Types of Punishment under BNS, 2023 - Section: 4 to 13 · 3. Joint Liability/Group liability · Common intention · Common object · Unlawful assembly, Riot and Affray
Unit III — General Exceptions
(i) Excusable defences (Sec:14-33) · Mistake of fact (Sec. 14,17) · Judicial act (Sec. 15,16) · Accident (Sec. 18) · Necessity (Sec. 17) · Infancy(Sec. 20,21) · Insanity (Sec. 22) · Intoxication (Sec. 23,24) · Consent (Sec. 25-30) · Communications made in good faith(Sec. 31) · Compulsion (Sec. 32) · Trifling acts (Sec. 33) · (ii) Justifiable defences (Sec. 34-44). · Right of private defence of body · Right of private defence of property · 2. Inchoate Crimes: · (i) Abetment (Sec. 45-60) · (ii) Conspiracy (Sec. 61) · (iii) Attempt (Sec. 62)
Unit IV — Offences against Woman
(i) Rape (Sec. 63, 64) · (ii) Aggravated Rape (Sec. 65-71) · (iii) Marital Rape · (iv) Outraging the modesty of woman (Sec. 74) · (v) Sexual harassment (Sec.75) · (vi) Disrobing (Sec. 76) · (vii) Voyeurism (Sec. 77) · (viii) Stalking (Sec. 78) · (ix) Dowry death (Sec. 80) · (x) Bigamy (Sec. 82) · (xi) Cruelty (Sec. 85,86) · 2. Offences against human body (Sec. 100-146) · (i) Culpable Homicide and Murder · (ii) Hurt and Grievous hurt · (iii) Wrongful Restraint and Wrongful Confinement · (iv) Criminal force & Assault, · (v) Kidnapping and Abduction
Unit V — Emerging Dimensions of Crime and BNS, 2023
(i) Mob lynching [Sec. 103(2), 117(4)] · (ii) Hit and Run [Sec. 106(2)] · (iii) Organized crime (Sec. 111) · (iv) Petty organized crime (Sec. 112) · (v) Terrorist act (Sec. 113) · (vi) Act endangering, sovereignty, unity and integrity of India (Sec. 152) · (vi) Snatching (Sec. 304) · 2. Offences against Property (Sec. 303-334) · (i) Theft and Extortion · (ii) Robbery and Dacoity · (iii) Criminal Misappropriation of Property and Criminal Breach of Trust · (iv) Cheating · (v) Mischief