B.N.S. Complete notes
B.N.S.: Complete Notes
Criminal Law explains why the law punishes one person and lets another go free, even when both have done something that looks the same from the outside.
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B.N.S.
Joint and Group Liability: Common Intention and Common Object
The central idea of this topic is simple: a plan can divide the work, but the law refuses to divide the guilt. When people commit a crime together, the law can hold each of them responsible for what the group did, even for a blow struck by another person.
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Practice MCQs
3 practice questions test this section.
- 1 An unlawful assembly's common object is to smash a guarded office. During the attack, one member fractures a guard's arm. The court finds that the members knew anyone trying to stop them was likely to be hurt. Under Sect...
- 2 In Ram Bilas Singh v. State of Bihar, only 3 of the 7 accused were convicted with the help of the common object rule. According to the Supreme Court, what is the real question in such a case?
- 3 Six men knowingly form an unlawful assembly to take possession of a field by criminal force. X is a member of the assembly at the time, but he does nothing with his own hands. Another member kills the occupant in prosecu...
Official text
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