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Question 276
Explain whether any offence is committed in the following instances and under what circumstances? Give reasons. Do not write more than 100 words in each case. Answer any Six questions (b) A cheque issued by X on his Bank having knowledge about insufficient funds in his account.
Property, Document and Financial Offences
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2002, Paper II, Q2(b), source page 8.
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Question 277
Explain whether any offence is committed in the following instances and under what circumstances? Give reasons. Do not write more than 100 words in each case. Answer any Six questions (c) X burns a share certificate of Z due to which she suffered mental agony in addition to financial loss.
Criminal Law and Law of Torts - General
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2002, Paper II, Q2(c), source page 8.
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Question 278
Explain whether any offence is committed in the following instances and under what circumstances? Give reasons. Do not write more than 100 words in each case. Answer any Six questions (d) X shakes his fist at Z so as to cause reasonable apprehension in the mind of Z that she would be hit.
Criminal Law and Law of Torts - General
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2002, Paper II, Q2(d), source page 8.
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Question 279
Xplain whether any offence is committed in the following instances and under what circumstances? Give reasons. Do not write more than 100 words in each case. Answer any Six questions (e) X has sexual intercourse with his wife without her consent.
Criminal Law and Law of Torts - General
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2002, Paper II, Q2(e), source page 8.
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Question 280
Explain whether any offence is committed in the following instances and under what circumstances? Give reasons. Do not write more than 100 words in each case. Answer any Six questions (f) X finds a valuable ring on the street and immediately sells the same for using the money to buy a computer.
Criminal Law and Law of Torts - General
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2002, Paper II, Q2(f), source page 8.
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Question 281
Explain whether any offence is committed in the following instances and under what circumstances? Give reasons. Do not write more than 100 words in each case. Answer any Six questions (g) X sells the estate of which he is not the owner and executes a conveyance deed in favour of the purchaser.
Criminal Law and Law of Torts - General
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2002, Paper II, Q2(g), source page 8.
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Question 282
Explain whether any offence is committed in the following instances and under what circumstances? Give reasons. Do not write more than 100 words in each case. Answer any Six questions (h) X takes Y a girl of 13 years of age without her knowledge to Mumbai to send her to Dubai to handover for marriage to a sekh over there and dispatches her to Dubai for the above purpose.
Criminal Law and Law of Torts - General
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2002, Paper II, Q2(h), source page 8.
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Question 283
Distinguish the following two incidents and point out regarding wrong, if any, which has been committed in these incidents. Distinguish in the context of the nature and composition of these wrongs: (i) The Municipality permitted a political party to hold a meeting in a public park blocking a busy road. X wanted to go to Y's house crossing the road but was not allowed. There was no other way to go to Y's house. (ii) A customer was suspected of having committed a theft in the departmental store by the staff. She was detained by the Manager for 2 days in a Store-room.
Criminal Law and Law of Torts - General
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2002, Paper II, Q3(a), source page 8.
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Question 284
Distinguish the wrong committed in the following two incidents and also give decisions: (i) X circulated a handbill to his neighbours alleging that Y became the Chairman of the Village Panchayat by paying money to the members of the Panchayat. (ii) X goes on informing his community members in many families that Ms Y is not chaste as many people have been her in the company of different people at various places.
Criminal Law and Law of Torts - General
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2002, Paper II, Q3(b), source page 8.
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Question 285
'Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 has many lacunae leading to undesirable consequences, which call for immediate requisite amendment to the Act.' - Critically examine the above statement and suggest reasons for such amendment, if any.
Social and Special Penal Statutes
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2002, Paper II, Q4(a), source page 8.
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Question 286
'Nothing is an offence which is done by a person who is bound by law to do it.' Discuss.
Criminal Law and Law of Torts - General
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2001, Paper II, Q1(a), source page 4.
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Question 287
Mere medical insanity is not a valid defence under the Indian Penal Code but legal insanity is. Discuss.
Criminal Law and Law of Torts - General
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2001, Paper II, Q1(b), source page 4.
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Question 288
Whenever there is a breach of duty there is a cause of action in tort." Discuss.
Criminal Law and Law of Torts - General
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2001, Paper II, Q1(c), source page 4.
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Question 289
'Where damages cannot be precisely calculated in terms of money, the court may take into account the motives and conduct of the defendant, and where these aggravate the plaintiff's injury the damages will be correspondingly increased.' Discuss.
Tort Remedies and Damages
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2001, Paper II, Q1(d), source page 4.
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Question 290
The law of criminal conspiracy insists on an agreement between two or more persons whereas in abetment by conspiracy a mere - engagement between them may be sufficient.".
General Principles of Criminal Liability
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2001, Paper II, Q2(a), source page 4.
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Question 291
'A' intentionally attacks 'B', not knowing that 'B' has an enlarged appendix. The blow falls on the appendix causing it to burst and 'B' dies. Discuss the liability of 'A'.
Criminal Law and Law of Torts - General
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2001, Paper II, Q2(b), source page 4.
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Question 292
'In the tort of negligence the question as to whether the defendant has acted as a reasonable man or not depends on many factors.' Discuss.
Negligence and Duty of Care
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2001, Paper II, Q3(a), source page 5.
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Question 293
The defendant establishes a flour mill in the heart of a city adjacent to the plaintiff's residential house. The running of the mill produces vibrations and noise. The plaintiff sues for damages and seeks injunction against the defendant. The defendant contends that he has a right to exercise his trade and that his mill gives employment to workers and is beneficial to residents. Decide.
Tort Remedies and Damages
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2001, Paper II, Q3(b), source page 5.
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Question 294
'Whether a public servant is guilty of criminal misconduct under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 or not is not an easy question for the courts to determine.' Discuss.
Social and Special Penal Statutes
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2001, Paper II, Q4(a), source page 5.
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Question 295
Explain the meaning of 'consumer' and 'service' under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986.
Consumer and Professional Liability
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2001, Paper II, Q4(b), source page 5.
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Question 296
A, a pickpocket, puts his hand in the pocket of B, a person, who was reclining in the park. Incidentally, the person had a piston in his pocket and as the pickpocket put his hand in the pocket, it touched the trigger and the pistol went off killing the person. Is a guilty of culpable homicide? Explain when culpable homicide does not amount to murder with the help of illustrations and decided cases.
Homicide and Defences
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2000, Paper II, Q1(a), source page 1.
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Question 297
X, a girl of 14, is ill-treated by her father and step mother. 'A', the neighbour under the belief that X was 18; takes her away from her parent's house on her request but without the consent of the parents. Is he guilty of any offence? If yes, analyse the nature of the offence and cite relevant cases.
Criminal Law and Law of Torts - General
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2000, Paper II, Q1(b), source page 1.
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Question 298
A promises to B, his student, and induced her to cohabit with him. He has given her a false assurance of marriage and also fraudulently gone through certain ceremonies of marriage making B to believe that she was a lawfully wedded wife of A. Later A refused to recognise her as his wife. What is the offence committed by A? Explain its ingredients.
Criminal Law and Law of Torts - General
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2000, Paper II, Q1(c), source page 1.
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Question 299
There was a leakage of oleum gas from one of the units of Mr. X's Textile Industry, situated in the city of Mumbai, on 4th and 5th October, 1995. It resulted in the death of an advocate practising in a court and all the ill effects of the same to various other persons. Mr. Y, a public spirited individual filed a writ petition, under Art. 32 of the Constitution, before the Supreme Court of India claiming compensation. Decide the liability of the occupier.
Strict and Absolute Liability
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2000, Paper II, Q1(d), source page 1.
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Question 300
Intention and the act both must concur to constitute a crime." Explain.
Criminal Law and Law of Torts - General
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2000, Paper II, Q2(a), source page 2.
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Question 301
Explain the occupier's liability in respect of structures.
Strict and Absolute Liability
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2000, Paper II, Q2(b), source page 2.
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Question 302
Explain the law relating to contributory negligence of children,.
Negligence and Duty of Care
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2000, Paper II, Q3(a), source page 2.
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Question 303
Distinguish between: (i) Malicious prosecution and False imprisonment (ii) Maintenance and Champerty.
Nuisance and Property InterferenceTort Remedies and Damages
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2000, Paper II, Q3(b), source page 2.
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Question 304
What are the changes that were brought to the Untouchability Act of 1955?
Social and Special Penal Statutes
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2000, Paper II, Q4(a), source page 2.
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Question 305
Critically examine viability of the Dowry Prohibition Act.
Offences Against Women and Children
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2000, Paper II, Q4(b), source page 2.
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Question 306
X, one Ayurvedic doctor prescribed the medicine of Allopathy which caused the death of a patient. What is his liability? Explain the liability of the doctors under the Consumer Protection Act.
Consumer and Professional Liability
Source reference: UPSC Law Optional 2000, Paper II, Q7(b), source page 3.
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