Academic Year 2021-22

Semester IV
Batch 2020-25

Teaching Plan
Law of Crimes Paper II: Penal Code II

BY
Dr. Sakshi Tewari

Symbiosis Law School, NOIDA

Symbiosis International (Deemed University),
Pune

January 2022 – June 2022

1. INTRODUCTION

This course as extension of Indian Penal Code would familiarize students with
specific offences dealing with public tranquility, State, vulnerable and so on. This
would help learners to know why certain offences are considered to be strict
liability while some are on the basis of mensrea and result of the offences. This
course would help the learners to understand why regulation of social behavior
and recommends endangering to the property, health, safety, and moral welfare
of people become necessary. In countries across the world, the crimes are
predominantly defined by statute, and the application varies enormously
depending upon the history, the judicial precedents if they follow common law
jurisdiction and how the trial takes place. This curriculum of fourth semester
covers the general elements of criminal liability by introducing to the learners at
the outset itself the concepts such as property offences, its various degrees,
offences against women, differentiating criminal law punishments on the basis
of intensity of crimes and further elucidating various perceptions and theories.
While clarifying the concepts of legal principles governing liability for offences
against property, those relating to marriage, those against the State, women,
religion, and those relating to public health and safety, the course would help
learners identifying the theory of justification and excuses too. Furthermore, it
delves in indulging the learners with the strengths and weaknesses in
explanations of crimes in terms of underlying considerations of morality,
principle and policy its variations as per the facts and circumstances of relevant
case laws.
2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES (Knowledge, Skills and Outcomes)

A. Objective (Knowledge, Skills, & Employability)

The objective of criminal law is to maintain law and order in the society and to
protect the life and liberty of people. It is for this reason that people place their
ultimate reliance on this branch of law for protection against all injuries that
human conduct can inflict on individuals and institutions. Due to these reasons,
the penal law cannot afford to be weak, ambiguous or ineffective. This course
endeavors to bring in certain objectives:
Learners will be able to understand the concepts and principles dealing with the
criminal justice administration (knowledge)
They will be able to analyze any offence conceptually and compare it with the
best practices prevailing in other countries and thereby research and write about
the same in the light of criminal justice principles. (skill)
They will be capable of applying the theoretical aspects of crime with
jurisprudential theories while reading any case laws. (employability)
B. Outcomes (Knowledge, Skills, & Employability)
The outcomes of this course would be:
 Ability to identify the concepts and definitions of crime, further, to deliberate
upon the moral considerations related to it – “why such an act is criminalized
by state” with special reference to the punishment prescribed (knowledge &
skills).
 Ability to identify the concepts and definitions of crime, further to deliberate
upon the moral considerations related to it – “why such an act is criminalized
by state” especially when it comes to property offences, offences against
women (Knowledge & skills);
 Aptitudes to demonstrate the law requiring proof of actus reus, mens rea,
strict liability offences in order to establish criminal liability (skills &
employability);  Capability to explain the various defenses and the varying
jurisprudence by common law courts and Indian Courts.(knowledge & skill);
 Ability to describe and explain the substantive law and theories pertaining to
group liability, common intention, common object, accomplice (skills &
employability);
 An insight in presenting materials drawn from a wide, and sometimes
contradictory, range of primary & secondary sources and doctrinal commentary
(skills & employability); and
 Capability to evaluate whether a crime had been committed and if the
accused is legally responsible. (employability)
The course objectives and the course outcomes will assist the student’s in
attaining these skills
C. Subject Specific Activity
Law of Crimes Paper-II will demand the learner to identify and read up the
current developments in law and update with the precedents on the basis of
2013 and 2018 amendments. The learner will have to make list of cases with
each day’s lecture pertaining to IPC sections as activity. In order to update, it is
advised to keep reading the new developments of Indian criminal law cases
particularly from Live law, Bar&Bench legal news websites and other such related
law related portals. To give more of practical knowledge on the subject,
documentaries on the core issues will be screened followed by discussions.
Further, case laws pertaining to each topic by way of IRAC mode will also be
done.
3. LECTURES
A. Times and Attendance
Two/Three lectures per week have been set aside for this course for each
division. Verify it from the Time Table assigned for each division. One should
duly check related notification at ‘Outlook’ as well as ‘Posts’ @Microsoft Teams.
As per Symbiosis International (Deemed University) Regulations, please note,
“Students are expected to attend minimum 75% of all scheduled sessions and
other forms of instruction as defined by the programme of study.” The student
will not be eligible to appear for the examination if he / she fail to put in the
required attendance.
The student will not be eligible to appear for the examination if he / she fail to
put in the required attendance. The students can update themselves of their
attendance daily on-line in ‘Attendance’ on i-Cloud EMS Portal at:
https://siu.icloudems.com/corecampus/index.php
B. Mode of Delivery
This Course will be delivered in Synchronous (80%) and Asynchronous (20%)
mode. Session Plan, Lecture outlines (principally in the form of PowerPoint
slides), Hand-outs, reading material including e-Books, and Articles as applicable
in a given case, will be made available in ‘Class Material’ @ Microsoft Team. To
facilitate understanding of these lectures, student should always read at least
the relevant pages of suggested readings in advance of each lecture.

C. Notifications
Students are informed that notice/s, if required, with respect Academic-
Administration, will be sent, either by Course in Charge or Officer In Charge,
Academic Coordination, using ‘Posts’ @Microsoft Teams. Students are required
to keep themselves duly informed.

D. Lecture Outline: Synchronous Mode

Synchronous Mode

Week / Date Lecture Content

No.

Week1February 14,Lecture 1 Teaching Plan

2022

Week 2 Lecture 2 Teaching Plan

February 21, 2022

Lecture 3 Topic 1: Crimes against Women & Gender

Specific offences
Introduction to crimes against women
Concepts of power and why harassment an
offence - Sexual Harassment
Section 375
Cases clause by clause of 375

Week 3 Lecture 4 Criminal Amendments of 2013

February 28, 2022
Lecture 5 Stalking and Voyeurism

Week 4 Lecture 6 Criminal Amendments of 2018

March 07, 2022
Lecture 7 Topic 2: Offences against Property
Theft

Week 5 March 14,Lecture 9 Extortion

2022
 Robbery and Dacoity

Week 6 Lecture 10 Receiving stolen property

March 21, 2022 Lecture 11 Lecture by Course Expert
Lecture 12 Criminal Misappropriation
Week 7
Lecture 13
March 28, 2022 Criminal Breach of Trust
Week 8 Lecture 14 Criminal Trespass & House Trespass
April 04, 2022 Lecture 15 House breaking
Lecture 16 Lecture by Course Expert
Week 9
Topic 3: Offences against State & Public
April 11, 2022 Lecture 17 Tranquility
Unlawful Assembly
Lecture 18 Promoting Enmity between different groups
Week 10
Common Intention (Section 34)
April 18, 2022 Lecture 19
Common Object - (Section 149)
Week 11 Lecture 20 Lecture by Course Expert
April 25, 2022 Lecture 21 Acts outraging religious feelings
Topic 4: Offences relating to Public
Week 12
Lecture 22 Health and Safety
May 02, 2022 Public Nuisance
Week 13 Negligent Conduct, Rash Driving,
Lecture 23 Hurt/grievous hurt byact endangering life
May 09, 2022
Lecture 24 Meaning of force and criminal force.
Week 14
May 16, 2022 Lecture 25 General Exceptions- (Pending)
Week 15 May 23, Lecture 26 Private Defense (pending)
2022
Week 16 Topic 5: Private Offence/s
Lecture 27
May 30, 2022 Criminal Defamation
Week 17
Lecture28 Criminal Defamation -Exceptions
June 06, 2022
Cases
E. Lecture Outline: Asynchronous Mode
The following part of the course will be covered via asynchronous mode of
teaching, learning, & evaluation.

Asynchronous Mode

Week Video No. Content

Week 3 Video 1 Sexual Offences - Offences against

February 28, Children, POCSO Act 2012 & Amendments
@ 3:30 PM Video 2 Sedition
Week 4 Video 3 Cheating and Forgery
March 07, 2022 Video 4 Common Object & Rioting
@ 3:30 PM
Doubt Clearing Session (Live)
Week 5 Video5 Kidnapping and Abduction
March 14, 2022 Video 6 Wrongful Restraint & Wrongful Confinement
@ 3:30 PM
Week 6 Video 7 Hurt and Grievous hurt
March 21, 2022
Video 8 Criminal Intimidation
@ 3:30 PM
Doubt Clearing Session (Live)

The above part of the course will be covered via asynchronous mode of teaching,
learning, & evaluation. This part of course will be covered through following three
steps:
I. Asynchronous Teaching (15 Minute); followed by,
II Learning Resources (Video, further reading) (45 minute); followed by,
III. Student Involvement Practices (15 minute)
*In following mode of teaching learning, attendance shall be granted only to the
students, who shall watch the video, do the assignment and participate in
Student Involvement Practices as per instructions given by Course In-charge.
*Learners must watch these videos, compulsorily refer the related
reading material and participate in engagement activity, as per
applicable schedule. On competition of all three steps mentioned above,
the attendance will be granted for the said session.

*The schedule will be followed subject to changes due to unforeseen and

unavoidable situations.

4. READING AND MATERIALS

A.Textbooks
William Douglas Morrison, Crime and Its Causes (Swan, Sonnenschein &
Co., 1891)
R.C.Nigam, Law of Crimes in India (Asia Publishing House edition, 1965)
 K.D Gaur, Text Book on The Indian Penal Code (6th edn. 2016), Universal
Law Publishing Co. Pvt Ltd., New Delhi.
K.I. Vibhute, P.S.A. Pillai’s Criminal Law, (12th edn. 2015), Lexis Nexis
Butterworths, New
Delhi.
K.T.Thomas and M.A.Rashid (ed.,) The Indian Penal Code (34th Ed. Lexis
Nexis Butterworths, New Delhi, 2014).
C.K. Thakker (Rev.), Ratan Lal & Dhiraj Lal’s Indian Penal Code, (32′d ed.,
2010)
B. Bare Act - Indian Penal code [(IPC) with the incorporated Amendment Act
of 2018].
C. Reference Books
Michael Cavadino, James Dignan (et.al) The Penal System An Introduction
(Sixth Edition,, Sage Publishing, 2019).
David Ormerod and Karl Laird (ed.), Smith and Hogan's Criminal Law (15th
ed., 2019)
Simester (et al) Simester and Sullivan’s Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine,
(6th ed. Hart Publishing, 2018).
Jonathan Herring, Criminal Law. Text, Cases, and Materials. (7th
ed.,Oxford University Press, 2017).
Michael J. Allen, Criminal Law (14th ed.,Oxford University Press, 2017).
Wayne LaFave, Criminal Law (West Publishing Company, 3th Edn., 2018).
Joshum Drossier, Understanding Criminal Law (Mathew Bender, 4th. Edn.,
2012)
Glanville William, Criminal Law: The General Part (4th ed., 2012).
Glanville Williams, Textbook of Criminal Law (4th ed., 2009).
George Fletcher, Rethinking Criminal Law (Little Brown publishing., 1978).
*Note: Learners are free to consult similar criminal law books available as
e-book from the recommended repositories as course in charge/course
experts suggest.
D. Important Selective Readings/Articles
R Leng, “The Scope of Rape”, Criminal Law Review, 416 (1985).
Charlotte Mitra “For She Has No Right or Power to Refuse Her Consent”, 23
Criminal Law Review, 558 (1979).
Spencer and Flin (ed.) “Child Witnesses, Corroboration and Expert
Evidence” 19 J Criminal Law Review 239 (1987).
Temkin, “Rape and the Legal Process” 32 Harvard law Journal (1998)
WilliamsJ. “What is an Indecent Assault? 20 Legal Studies (1990).
G. Virgo, “Offences against the person: The wheel is come full circle”, 51
Cambridge Law Journal, 6 (1992).
 G. R. Sullivan, “Theft to Robbery- What courts need to look at”, 13 Oxford
Journal of Legal Studies, 421 (1993).
M. A. Owoade, “Scope of property protection in Criminal Law”, 17 Indian
Socio-Legal Journal, 35(1991).
R. A. Duff, “Choice character and criminal liability,” 12Law & Philosophy345
(1993).
Susan Estrich “Rape” The Yale Law Journal, 95 (1986).
Francis B. Sayre, “Public Welfare Offenses”, 33 Colum. L. Rev. 55 (1933).
L. Carr, “Duress and criminal responsibility”, 10 Law & Philosophy161(1991)
W. Glanville, “Intents in the alternative”, 50 Cambridge Law Journal120
(1991).
M. Gorr, “Private Defence”, 9 Law & Philosophy, 241, (1990).
Candeub, “Motive crimes and other minds”, 142 University of Pennsylvania
Law Review, 2071 (1994).
T. Weir, “Why does provocation diminish culpability?” 55 Cambridge Law
Journal, 420 (1996).
G. R. Sullivan, “Cause and the contemporaneity of actus reus and mens
rea”, 52 Cambridge Law Journal, 487(1993
Nevertheless, the text provides the basic reading for the course only. There is
much more to the Family Law II than this, and you will undoubtedly benefit from
undertaking some reading and study of your own. It is creditable if you, in
respect of the proper use of independent research and study, follow up in the
Law Library some of the case references, periodical articles or other material
referred to in the prime textbook or in class – or even to do some research of
your own. For supplementary reading, you could, for instance, begin by
consulting the relevant sections of the “alternative” texts placed on loan in the
law library. Thereafter you could engage in your own research, with particular
reference to eBooks, eJournals, Case Comments, Case Notes, Research Material
on online databases including Hein Online, Ebrary, EBC Reader, Westlaw India,
LexisNexis, SCC Online, AIR, Manupatra, CLA Online, Kluwer Competition Law,
Kluwer Arbitration; Kluwer Patent Law, JSTOR; Emerald, EBSCO’S, Legit Quest,
Sage Journals, International Taxation, Oxford Handbooks; Sage Research
Methods, Nature Journal, McGraw Hill Education India E-Books, SCOPUS, Web
of Science, Pearson E-Books etc.

5. ASSESSMENT
Law of Crimes Paper II: Penal Code II is a 3credit course so you will be examined
in this course for 75 marks. You will be examined in this course by Internal
(40%) and External Assessment (60%) format.
Internal Continuous Evaluation:

i. First Mode of Internal Continuous Evaluation – Project (10 Marks)

ii. Second Mode of Internal Continuous Evaluation – Quiz I (5 Marks)
iii. Third Mode of Internal Continuous Evaluation – Tutorial (10 Marks)
iv. Fourth Mode of Internal Continuous Evaluation – Quiz II (5 Marks)
Term End Examination
The Symbiosis International (Deemed University) will conduct Term End
Examination for 45 marks at the end of the semester. It will consist 5 Subjective-
type/ cases and open problems/ questions (4 questions of 10 marks each and 1
question of 5 marks) with an alternative.

6. INTERNAL CONTINUOUS EVALUATION: MODE AND SCHDULE

A. Project mode and Schedule
First Component is Research Project –where each learner will be required to
review the allotted project to be evaluated out of 10 marks. The Project Topic
will be allotted by Course In charge.
The Research project is aimed at improving research and analytical skills to make
students learning academically more challenging and rigorous than standard
lecture and test format courses
The details about the rules and format of submission are annexed with this
document. (Refer to Enclosure A).
Project –Submission Guidelines: Please note that you are required to submit it
to on or before the date of submission. It should comprise of Details of the
Learner (Name, PRN, Division and Programme). The project should be
accompanied with Turnitin generated plagiarism report. No submission will be
accepted without plagiarism report. As per the anti-plagiarism, the projects with
more than 10% plagiarized content shall be marked ‘zero’.
Following are the guidelines for the project:
 Project will be allotted by Course In charge
 Word Limit (Not more than 1200 words)
 Complete Plagiarism report generated via Turn-it-in shall be submitted
 Turnitin report highlighting content similarity of Index should be of ≤10%.
Similarity index more than 10 % shall invite strict actions and the learner
shall be awarded “zero” marks for the project.
 Despite the report’s content similarity being lower, if the Course-in-charge
identifies any form of plagiarism, undetected by Turnitin, the learner will have
to face a penalty of negative marking (Negative marking of up to five marks).
Pertinent details respect to generation of Turnitin Report and its upload on
‘Assignment @microsoft Teams' are as follows:
 Classes – course wise for Batch 2020-25 at Turnitin will be created
 Upload complete assignment in your respective Class @Turnitin
 Once the Turnitin report is generated, download it and then upload the
same report as is generated on ‘Assignment @Microsoft Teams', as applicable in
a given case, for the purpose of evaluation.
Late submission will invite the deduction of two marks per day. Deduction of the
marks to be calculated from the last date of submission.
The timetable of the Project, Tutorial and Viva Voce is as follows:

Schedule – Project
 Allotment of Topics Submission Results
List of topics will be Date of
uploaded @ curiosity Allotment of
and Microsoft Team Topic
February 14, 2022 March 07, March 19,
2022 2022

Parameters Weightage of Marks

Introduction 3 Marks

Research Methodology 2 Marks

Referencing 2 Marks

Analysis & Conclusion 3 Marks

B. Quiz I - Mode and Schedule

The Second mode of internal assessment will be Quiz and shall be conducted via
online mode from the part of the course delivered via online mode. Online Quiz
I and II: Each Quiz shall have 5 multiple choice questions of 1 mark each. There
is no negative marking. The duration of the quiz shall be 15 minutes. The Quiz
shall be prepared in the form of the fill in the blanks, true/false, Statement
/Code, Paragraph based, Data Based, Logical Sequence, matching questions
relating to the subject. The goal of the Quiz is to prepare, motivate and help the
students recall/remember what they learned. It aims at judging the knowledge
and Understanding of a student.

Schedule – Quiz I
Topic Date Time
(Lecture Plan – Asynchronous Mode)
• Sexual Offences
• Sedition April 03:00 PM
• Cheating and Forgery 06,2022 -
• Common Object & Rioting 03:15 PM

@Video 1-4

C. Tutorial - Mode and Schedule

The third mode of internal Assessment is Tutorial. There will be one tutorial of
10 marks, having minimum two questions. The tutorial will be “Open Book Test”.
It is designed to ensure that the students practice their ability to reflect and
relate theories and improve their expression style in writing. It is aimed at
improving the writing, research, communication, and presentation skills. It is
Open Book Examination i.e. examinees are allowed to bring and use any
material including Books, Articles, Hand Written Notes, Hand Outs and alike
printed material.

Date Topic

Test Result

April April
Offences against Women • Offences against
18,2022 29,2022
Property

D. Quiz II - Mode and Schedule

The third mode of internal assessment will be Quiz and shall be conducted via
online mode from the part of the course delivered via online mode. Online Quiz
I and II: Each Quiz shall have 5 multiple choice questions of 1 mark each. There
is no negative marking. The duration of the quiz shall be 15 minutes. The Quiz
shall be prepared in the form of the fill in the blanks, true/false, Statement
/Code, Paragraph based, Data Based, Logical Sequence, matching questions
relating to the subject. The goal of the Quiz is to prepare, motivate and help the
students recall/remember what they learned. It aims at judging the knowledge
and Understanding of a student.

Schedule – Quiz II
Topic Date Time
(Lecture Plan – Asynchronous
mode)
 Sexual Offences
 Sedition April 03:00 PM
 Cheating and Forgery 27,2022 -
 Common Object & Rioting 03:15 PM

@Video 5-8

7. ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGMENTS AND CONTACT HOURS

The Course In charge for Law of Crimes Paper II: Penal Code II is Dr. Sakshi
Tewari. If doubts remain, please get in touch at sakshi@symlaw.edu.in
 Annexure A

Enclosure A: Guidelines for Project

Law of Crimes Paper II: Penal Code II

The final copy of the project should be presented in accordance with the following
specifications:

1. The paper used for printing shall be of A4 size.

2. Printing shall be in a standardized form and in one-and-a-half spacing.

• Font: Verdana

• Font Size: Main Heading 16(Bold), Sub Heading 14(Bold) and text 1

• Alignment: Justified.

• MS Word: 2003-7 Versions,

• Page layout: left-1.5 cm, Top-Right-Bottom - 1 cm.

3. A margin of one-and-a-half inches shall be left on the left-hand side.

4. The title of the project, name of the candidate, degree, faculty, university, month
and year of submission, and the name of the research guide with his/her designation
and full official address shall be printed on the first page and on the front cover as given
in Appendix ‘A’.

5. A certificate (Appendix ‘B’) affirming that the research work of the candidate is
original, and that the material, if any, borrowed from other sources and incorporated in
the thesis has been duly acknowledged should be signed by the candidate and counter
signed by the research guide. It should also state that the candidate himself/herself will
be held responsible and accountable for plagiarism, if any, detected later.

The candidate and research guide should further certify that research papers, if any,
published based on the research conducted out of and in the course of the study.
 Guidelines for Project

I Introduction

II Research Methodology

Hypothesis
Contents of Project
Research Questions

Scope and Limitation

III Chapters

IV Conclusion and Suggestions

Bibliography should be as per Harvard APA Referencing System.

 Appendix ‘A’ – Front Page and Cover

Title of the project (centered on two or more lines)

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Submitted by

Name of the candidate

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Division.... Roll No....Class...

Symbiosis Law School, NOIDA

Symbiosis International (Deemed University), PUNE

In

Month, year

Under the guidance of

Name of Course In charge

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 Appendix ‘B’ – Certificate

C E R T IF IC AT E

The Project entitled “_________________________________” submitted to

the Symbiosis Law School, NOIDA for Law of Crimes Paper II: Penal Code II as
part of Internal assessment is based on my original work carried out under the
guidance of ______________ from ________ to __________. The research
work has not been submitted elsewhere for award of any degree.

The material borrowed from other sources and incorporated in the thesis has
been duly acknowledged.

I understand that I myself could be held responsible and accountable for

plagiarism, if any, detected later on.

Signature of the candidate

Date:
 Appendix ‘C’ – first few pages

First few pages of the thesis should be as under:

Page 1- Title page

Page 2- Certificate

Page 3- Acknowledgements

Page 4- Index

Page 5- List of Tables (If any)

Page 6- List of Figures (If any)

Page 7- Bibliography
 Appendix ‘D’- Bibliography

The Bibliography should contain a list of all the books, journals, articles and
pamphlets that the researcher has consulted during the course of the study. It
should be arranged alphabetically.

The entries in the bibliography should be made adopting the Harvard APA
Referencing System.