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Understanding Crime
- What is a Crime?
- What are the ingredients of Crime?
- Concept of Mens Rea (Guilty Mind)
- Stages of Commission of Crime
- Act of Commission and Act of Omission
Principles of Criminal Liability
- General Principles of Criminal Liability
- Cause and Effect Relationship in Criminal Liability
- Strict Liability and Absolute Liability
- Group or Joint Liability
- Vicarious Criminal Liability
- Corporate Criminal Liability
Chapter I – Preliminary (Ss. 1 to 3)
- Extent and Jurisdiction (S. 1)
- Concept Application 1.1 (MCQ)
- Concept Applications 1.6 (Situational Problems)
Chapter III – Of General Exceptions (Ss. 14 to 44)
- General Exceptions Under BNS
- Mistake of Law and Mistake of Fact
- Mistake of Fact as General Exception (S. 14)
- Judicial Acts as Exception to Criminal Liability (Ss. 15 and 16)
- Mistake of Fact Justified by Law (S. 17)
- Accident in Doing Lawful Act (S. 18)
- Doctrine of Necessity or Doctrine of Necessitatis (S. 19)
- Defence of Infancy (Ss. 20 and 21)