Detailed Curriculum

Program: LLB Semester: IV

Course: Indian Penal Code Credits: 3
Course Code: LL 241 Sessions: 45
Course Objective:
This course will enable the students to get in-depth knowledge about the various aspects of crimes and various
criminal offences. The course should prepare the student to identify an act as a crime or not and how to prosecute or
defend the same. The student’s will also be able to look into the various changes that had to be incorporated due to
the requirements of rapidly changing society including intolerance towards offences basically targeted against
women. They will also be able to observe some severe shortfalls in our criminal laws and need for speedy reform of
the same.

Units
(Each unit
Contents Remarks (if any) Sessions
will have
one credit)
I- Introduction to Crime ; Indian Penal Code –
History; Different stages of crime
   3
II- General defenses - Concept and meaning
   3
III- Mistake of Facts; Incapable of committing a
I Crime
   3
IV- Abetment- sec. 107; Abettor. Sec.108;
Punishment for Abetment. Sec 109
   3
V- Criminal conspiracy- meaning and scope;
Sec.120 B- punishment
   3
I- Offences affecting the human body-
introduction; Culpable homicide.(Sec 299);
Elements of culpable homicide    3
II- Murder(sec.300)- meaning ;

   3
III- Exception under sec.300; Punishments
II
   3
IV- Difference between murder and culpable
homicide; Dowry death. Sec.304 B
   3
V- Hurt- meaning and kind; Simple Hurt. Sec.
319; Grievous hurt. Sec .320-meaning
   3
I- Abduction; Kidnapping
  3 
II- Sexual offences- meaning and types under
IPC
   3
III- Rape- Sec. 375; Punishment for Rape-
III Sec.376
   3
IV- Offence of theft; Punishment for theft;
Offences relating to marriage
   3
V- Attempt(Sec. 511); Emerging criminal
Jurisprudence
   3
Grand Total  45
 

Textbook
Name Publisher
The Indian Penal Code (KD Gaur) Universal Law Publication Ltd.
Reference Books
Sl.No. Name Author/s Edition Publisher
Indian Penal Code 1st edn. Jain
S.N. Mishra
1 Publictaion
2 Criminal Law KI Vibhute 2nd edn. Lexis Nexis

T1 and T3

Sl
Test Test Break up Date
No
1 T1 Assignment(5); Presentation(5);
Viva(5)
2 T3 Written Test(5); Assignment(5);
Viva(5)