BNS CHAPTER – 11 OFFENCES AFFECTING THE PUBLIC HEALTH , SAFETY , CONVENIENCE,DECENCY AND MORALS (SECTION : 268

Welcome to your BNS CHAPTER - 11 OFFENCES AFFECTING THE PUBLIC HEALTH , SAFETY , CONVENIENCE,DECENCY AND MORALS (SECTION : 268 - 294A)

1. The punishment for general form of Public Nuisance is provided in -

[UP APO 2006]

a) Section 268 of IPC

b) Section 269 of IPC

c) Section 290 of IPC

d) Section 291 of IPC

2. Which of the following is an offence under the Indian Penal Code ?

[DJS 2018-19]

a) Keeping an office for the purpose of drawing any lottery not being a state lottery

b) Receiving profits from a business which the person knows is for making obscene books to be sold

c) Selling an obscene object to a person aged 19 years

d) All the above

3. Indian Penal Code : Uttering obscene words near a public place -

[MP CJ 2018]

a) is not an offence

b) is an offence under Section 294 IPC

c) is an offence under Section 290 IPC

d) is an offence under Section 292(2) (b) IPC

4. A drove the car rashly or negligently on the public way and damaged the property of B. thereby he committed offence under what Section/ Sections ?

[MPJS 2011]

a) 279

b) 279 and 425

c) 425

d) 279 and 337

5. What ingredient is not necessary for the offences punishable under Section 279 IPC (Rash driving on public way ) :

[MPJS 2007]

a) Driving of Vehicle

b) On a public way

c) Such driving must be so rash or negligent as to endanger human life

d) Persons were on road

6. Sale of an obscene object to any person under the age of ............... is punishable under section 293 of IPC,1860

[HJS 2017]

a) 14

b) 16

c) 18

d) 20

e) none of the above

7. Which Provision of the Indian Penal Code makes water pollution punishable ?

[ RCJ 2014]

a) Section 277

b) Section 278

c) Section 279

d) Section 280

8. Under which of the following Sections of the Indian Penal Code, rash or negligent driving of vehicle on public way is an offence ?

[UK CJS 2018]

a) Section 279

b) Section 280

c) Section 281

d) Section 282

9. A person who does any act which causes any common injury, danger, annoyance to the people in general who dwell or vicinity, commits occupy property in the offence of -

[UK JS 2017]

a) negligence

b) Trespass

c) private nuisance

d) public nuisance

10. Under which one of the following Sections of IPC rash and negligent driving of vehicle on a public way is an offence ?

[UJS 2014]

a) Section 278

b) Section 279

c) Section 273

d) Section 280

11. To which one of the following Sections of IPC Hicklin rule is related to ?

[UJS 2014]

a) Section 292

b) Section 291

c) Section 290

d) Section 294

12.A hotel situated on the bank of a water reservoir despite objections, discharges its polluted water into the reservoir, causing fouls to reservoir water for which offence under Indian Penal Code can the Manager of the Hotel be charged ?

[UJS 2009]

a) Section 277

b) Section 276

c) Section 278

d) Section 282

13. Which of the following is not an offence against the State, under the Indian Penal Code ,1860 ?

[HPJS 2007]

a) Spreading infection of disease dangerous to life

b) Waging war against the Government of India

c) Sedition

d) Assaulting Governor of a State with intent to compel to exercise of any lawful power

14. Making atmosphere noxious to health is dealt under -

[Guj CJS 2019]

a) Section 278 of Indian Penal Code

b) Section 279 of Indian Penal Code

c) Section 280 of Indian Penal Code

d) Section 281 of Indian Penal Code

15. "Public Nuisance" under the Indian Penal Code is dealt in -

[TN APO 2019]

a) Section 265

b) Section 266

c) Section 267

d) Section 268

16. Section 292, IPC makes the selling hiring distributing, publicly exhibiting importing etc. of obscene books, pamphlets, writing, drawing etc. an offence. Which one of the following is correct ? Mens rea is -

[UPSC CS 2008]

a) required only for selling and hiring books

b) required only for exhibiting

c) required only importing and exporting

d) not required at all for offence under Section 292

17. Public nuisance:

[UPSC CS 2001]

a) mainly affects the reasonable comfort and convenience of life of a class of subjects who come within the sphere or neighborhood of its operation

b) affects life of a class of subjects who come within the sphere on neighborhood of its operation

c) affects a person who come within the neighborhood of its operation

d) is described as unlawful interference with a person's use or enjoyment of land or some right over or in connect with it

18. X drives a car rashly inside his property and dashes against the compound wall, sustaining fracture injuries. He commits the offence under -

[Goa APO 2017]

a) Section 279 IPC

b) Section 279 & 338 IPC

c) No offence

d) Section 304A IPC

19. Uttering obscene words near a public place -

[KJS 2011]

a) is not an offence

b) is an offence under Section 294(b) IPC

c) is an offence under Section 290 IPC

d) is an offence under Section 292(2) (b) IPC

20. Punishment for keeping lottery has been prescribed under -

a) Section 294

b) Section 294A

c) Section 294B

d) Section 293

21. Punishment for general form of public nuisance is provided in :

a) Section 289

b) Section 290

c) Section 291

d) Section 292

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BNS CHAPTER – 11 OFFENCES AFFECTING THE PUBLIC HEALTH , SAFETY , CONVENIENCE,DECENCY AND MORALS (SECTION : 268 – 294A)

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