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The correct answer is '10 years'

Key Points

• Minimum imprisonment for use of deadly weapons in dacoity under the Indian Penal Code (IPC):
  • As per Section 397 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the law prescribes a minimum punishment of 10 years imprisonment for dacoity if the offender uses any deadly weapon, or causes grievous hurt, or attempts to cause death or grievous hurt during the commission of the crime.
  • This provision ensures stringent punishment for individuals who resort to using deadly force or weapons while committing dacoity, which is considered a grave offense.
  • The intent behind such harsh punishment is to deter individuals from committing such crimes and to protect society from violent acts.

Additional Information

• Analysis of other options:
  • 7 years (Option 2): While certain crimes under the IPC may carry a punishment of 7 years, this is not the prescribed minimum punishment for the use of deadly weapons in dacoity. Section 397 specifically mandates a minimum of 10 years.
  • 5 years (Option 3): A punishment of 5 years is applicable for lesser offenses under the IPC, but it does not apply to dacoity involving the use of deadly weapons, which is considered a severe crime.
  • 14 years (Option 4): Although life imprisonment or longer durations may be prescribed for some crimes, the minimum punishment for using deadly weapons in dacoity is not 14 years. The law explicitly sets it at 10 years.
• Definition of dacoity:
  • Dacoity is defined under Section 391 of the IPC as a crime where five or more individuals conjointly commit or attempt to commit robbery.
  • The use of deadly weapons in dacoity makes the offense more heinous, leading to stricter punishment.
• Purpose of stringent punishment under Section 397:
  • To ensure public safety and maintain law and order.
  • To act as a deterrent for potential offenders.
  • To reflect the seriousness of crimes involving violence and deadly weapons.

The correct answer is Option 1.

Key Points Section 505 of the Indian Penal Code:
Statements conducing to public mischief.—
(1) Whoever makes, publishes or circulates any statement, rumour or report,—
(a) with intent to cause, or which is likely to cause, any officer, soldier, sailor or airman in the Army, Navy or Air Force of India to mutiny or otherwise disregard or fail in his duty as such; or
(b) with intent to cause, or which is likely to cause, fear or alarm to the public, or to any section of the public whereby any person may be induced to commit an offence against the State or against the public tranquility; or
(c) with intent to incite, or which is likely to incite, any class or community of persons to commit any offence against any other class or community, shall be punished with imprisonment which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both. 

The correct answer is Option 2.

Key PointsSection 511 IPC does not apply in case of offence for which express provision is made by this Code for the punishment of such attempt e.g. Attempt to murder. 

• The offence is which is not an offence under Indian Penal Code does not fall within the ambit of this section. 

Section 511 applies to:   

• Attempts to commit offences which is punishable with any imprisonment under the Indian Penal Code. 
•  and, in respect of which no express providing is made by the code, for punishment. 

The ‘offence’ is defined in Section 40 IPC. Thus section 511 applies to those offences which is an offence as defined in Section 40 IPC. 

Additional InformationMalkait Singh V. State of Punjab

• The accused were a truck driver and cleaner who were caught hold near a barrier check post in Punjab which was few miles away from the inter-state border of Punjab and they were accused of carrying 75 bags of paddy illegally being smuggled along with evidence of a letter written by consigner in Punjab to consignee in Delhi. The accused were charged for acts i.e attempt to smuggle paddy which was in violation of the Punjab Paddy (Export Control) Order 1959. The Supreme Court held that it is mere preparation of an act and not an act of attempt as the paddy being carried in a truck was such an act which had ample scope for the accused to change their mind or to be obstructed. In this case, the judges observed that the accused might have been stopped or rejected to proceed further at any point in between the inter-state border. Hence, was not punishable.

The correct answer is option 1.Key Points

• Section 509 of Indian Penal Code 1860 deals with Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman.
• Whoever, intending to insult the modesty of any woman, utters any words, makes any sound or gesture, or exhibits any object, intending that such word or sound shall be heard, or that such gesture or object shall be seen, by such woman, or intrudes upon the privacy of such woman, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, and also with fine. 
• Section 66A of Information technology 2000 deals with Punishment for sending offensive messages through communication service, etc.
• Any person who sends, by means of a computer resource or a communication device,:
  • (a) any information that is grossly offensive or has menacing character; or
  • (b) any information which he knows to be false, but for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred or ill will, persistently by making use of such computer resource or a communication device;
  • (c) any electronic mail or electronic mail message for the purpose of causing annoyance or inconvenience or to deceive or to mislead the addressee or recipient about the origin of such messages, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and with fine.
• Explanation.–For the purposes of this section, terms ―electronic mail‖ and ―electronic mail message  means a message or information created or transmitted or received on a computer, computer system, computer resource or communication device including attachments in text, image, audio, video and any other electronic record, which may be transmitted with the message.

The correct option is A person to convince another to perform an act under the threat of divine displeasure.

Key Points

• Divine Displeasure:- Section 508:
  • Act Caused by Inducing Person to Believe that he will be rendered an Object of the Divine Displeasure.
    • "Any act or omission caused by inducing a person to believe that he will be rendered an object of Divine displeasure if he does not do or omit to do the things which it is the object of the offender to cause him to do or omit is punishable with imprisonment up to one year, or fine, or both".
• Section 508 is intended to prevent such practices as dharma.
• If a person brings Divine displeasure against another person and stages a dharna at his door, such a person will be punished under section 508.
• Example: A threatens Z that, unless Z performs a certain act, A will kill one of A's children, under such circumstances that the killing would be believed to render Z an object of Divine displeasure. A commits the offence defined in the section 508.

The correct answer is option 1.Key Points

• Section 509 of Indian Penal Code 1860 deals with Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman.
• Whoever, intending to insult the modesty of any woman, utters any words, makes any sound or gesture, or exhibits any object, intending that such word or sound shall be heard, or that such gesture or object shall be seen, by such woman, or intrudes upon the privacy of such woman, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, and also with fine. 
• Section 66A of Information technology 2000 deals with Punishment for sending offensive messages through communication service, etc.
• Any person who sends, by means of a computer resource or a communication device,:
  • (a) any information that is grossly offensive or has menacing character; or
  • (b) any information which he knows to be false, but for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred or ill will, persistently by making use of such computer resource or a communication device;
  • (c) any electronic mail or electronic mail message for the purpose of causing annoyance or inconvenience or to deceive or to mislead the addressee or recipient about the origin of such messages, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and with fine.
• Explanation.–For the purposes of this section, terms ―electronic mail‖ and ―electronic mail message  means a message or information created or transmitted or received on a computer, computer system, computer resource or communication device including attachments in text, image, audio, video and any other electronic record, which may be transmitted with the message.

The correct answer is Section 503.

Key Points

• Section 503 of the IPC provides for Criminal intimidation.
• It states that —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.
  Explanation.—A threat to injure the reputation of any deceased person in whom the person threatened is interested, is within this section.

Correct answer is (1)

 Key PointsCriminal intimidation is defined under Section 503 of the IPC as an offence in which the individual threatens or endangers another with harm to his person, reputation, property in order to compel the other individual to do an act that he is not bound by law to do or perform. 

A threaten to kill B's child if he does not sign the property documents. Here A has committed the offence of criminal intimidation

Section 504 of the IPC applies when someone intentionally instigates and insults another person knowing that by such instigation or insult public order will be disrupt. This offence is punishable with imprisonment upto 2 years, with or without fine.

Section 506 of the IPC deals with the punishment for Criminal Intimidation which states that whoever commits the offence of criminal intimidation shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.

If the threat to be cause grievous hurt or death , or to cause destruction of property by fire, or to cause offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life or imprisonment for a tem which may extends to seven years, or to impute unchastity to a woman, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both.

Additional Information The offence under Section 503 is a bailable offence. The accused arrested for an offence under this Act has the right to get bail.The offence is also compoundable offence.The compounding of offence takes place under Section 320 of Criminal Procedure Code.

The correct option is Section 510.

Key Points

• Section 510: Misconduct in Public by a Drunken Person (Annoyance)
  • Intoxication alone is not made punishable by the Code.
  • But a person who in a state of intoxication appears in any public place, or in any place which it is a trespass in him to enter and there conducts himself in such a manner as to annoy any person is liable to punishment.
  • The punishment of section 510 is imprisonment for up to 24 hours, or fine, or both.

Additional Information

•  Section 510 provides minimum punishment in IPC
• Section 510 of IPC says Misconduct in public by a drunken person—
  • "Whoever, in a state of intoxication, appears in any public place, or in any place which it is a trespass in him to enter, and there conducts himself in such a manner as to cause annoyance to any person, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to twenty-four hours, or with fine which may extend to ten rupees, or with both".

The correct answer is imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both; 

Key Points

• Section 506 of the Indian Penal Code provides for the Punishment for criminal intimidation.
• It states that —Whoever commits the offence of criminal intimidation shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both;
  If threat be to cause death or grievous hurt, etc.—and if the threat be to cause death or grievous hurt, or to cause the destruction of any property by fire, or to cause an offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years, or to impute unchastity to a woman, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both.

The correct answer is Option 2.

Key PointsSection 511 IPC does not apply in case of offence for which express provision is made by this Code for the punishment of such attempt e.g. Attempt to murder. 

• The offence is which is not an offence under Indian Penal Code does not fall within the ambit of this section. 

Section 511 applies to:   

• Attempts to commit offences which is punishable with any imprisonment under the Indian Penal Code. 
•  and, in respect of which no express providing is made by the code, for punishment. 

The ‘offence’ is defined in Section 40 IPC. Thus section 511 applies to those offences which is an offence as defined in Section 40 IPC. 

Additional InformationMalkait Singh V. State of Punjab

• The accused were a truck driver and cleaner who were caught hold near a barrier check post in Punjab which was few miles away from the inter-state border of Punjab and they were accused of carrying 75 bags of paddy illegally being smuggled along with evidence of a letter written by consigner in Punjab to consignee in Delhi. The accused were charged for acts i.e attempt to smuggle paddy which was in violation of the Punjab Paddy (Export Control) Order 1959. The Supreme Court held that it is mere preparation of an act and not an act of attempt as the paddy being carried in a truck was such an act which had ample scope for the accused to change their mind or to be obstructed. In this case, the judges observed that the accused might have been stopped or rejected to proceed further at any point in between the inter-state border. Hence, was not punishable.

The correct option is Annoying another person.

Key Points

• Section 510: Misconduct in Public by a Drunken Person (Annoyance)
  • Intoxication alone is not made punishable by the Code.
  • But a person who in a state of intoxication appears in any public place, or in any place which it is a trespass in him to enter and there conducts himself in such a manner as to annoy any person is liable to punishment.
  • The punishment of section 510 is imprisonment for up to 24 hours, or fine, or both.

Additional Information

•  Section 510 provides minimum punishment in IPC
• Section 510 of IPC says Misconduct in public by a drunken person—
  • "Whoever, in a state of intoxication, appears in any public place, or in any place which it is a trespass in him to enter, and there conducts himself in such a manner as to cause annoyance to any person, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to twenty-four hours, or with fine which may extend to ten rupees, or with both".

The correct option is Section 503.

Key Points

• Criminal Intimidation (Section 503)
  • A person commits 'criminal intimidation' if he -
    • threatens another with any injury to his person, reputation or property, or to the person, or reputation of anyone 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 omit to do any act which that person is legally entitled to do,
    • as the means of avoiding the execution of such a threat.
  • Explanation - A threat to injure the reputation of any deceased person in whom the person threatened is interested is within this section.
• Illustration-A, to induce B to desist from prosecuting a civil suit, threatens to bum B's house. A is guilty of criminal intimidation.

Additional Information

• The word 'injury' is defined by Section 44 as denoting any harm illegally caused to another.
• Therefore, it will not be an offence to threaten another with a civil suit or criminal prosecution which might be lawfully instituted against him.
• The mere vague allegation by a person that he is going to take revenge by false complaints cannot amount to criminal intimidation [Govind (1900) 2 Bom LR 55].
• However, if a person threatens to ruin by false cases, he will be convicted under section 503 [Jowahir Pathak v Prabhoo Ahir (1902) 30 Cal 418].

The correct answer is Section 510

Key Points

• Section 510 IPC deals with “Misconduct in public by a drunken person”.
• Key Ingredients:
  • The person must be in a state of intoxication.
  • The person must appear in a public place or in any place where he is not supposed to be drunk.
  • His behavior must cause annoyance to any person.
• Punishment:
  • Simple imprisonment up to 24 hours, or
  • Fine up to ₹10, or
  • Both.

Additional Information

• Section 507:Deals with criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication.
• Section 508:Punishes acts committed under misconception caused by inducement, i.e., doing an act believing it to be lawful because someone falsely made it appear so.
• Section 509:Relates to insulting the modesty of a woman through words, gestures, or acts intended to intrude upon her privacy.

The correct answer is '10 years'

Key Points

• Minimum imprisonment for use of deadly weapons in dacoity under the Indian Penal Code (IPC):
  • As per Section 397 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the law prescribes a minimum punishment of 10 years imprisonment for dacoity if the offender uses any deadly weapon, or causes grievous hurt, or attempts to cause death or grievous hurt during the commission of the crime.
  • This provision ensures stringent punishment for individuals who resort to using deadly force or weapons while committing dacoity, which is considered a grave offense.
  • The intent behind such harsh punishment is to deter individuals from committing such crimes and to protect society from violent acts.

Additional Information

• Analysis of other options:
  • 7 years (Option 2): While certain crimes under the IPC may carry a punishment of 7 years, this is not the prescribed minimum punishment for the use of deadly weapons in dacoity. Section 397 specifically mandates a minimum of 10 years.
  • 5 years (Option 3): A punishment of 5 years is applicable for lesser offenses under the IPC, but it does not apply to dacoity involving the use of deadly weapons, which is considered a severe crime.
  • 14 years (Option 4): Although life imprisonment or longer durations may be prescribed for some crimes, the minimum punishment for using deadly weapons in dacoity is not 14 years. The law explicitly sets it at 10 years.
• Definition of dacoity:
  • Dacoity is defined under Section 391 of the IPC as a crime where five or more individuals conjointly commit or attempt to commit robbery.
  • The use of deadly weapons in dacoity makes the offense more heinous, leading to stricter punishment.
• Purpose of stringent punishment under Section 397:
  • To ensure public safety and maintain law and order.
  • To act as a deterrent for potential offenders.
  • To reflect the seriousness of crimes involving violence and deadly weapons.