Legal Question in Criminal Law in India

YOu have to read Indian Penal Code, criminal procedure code and evidence act for the purpose of knowing the criminal law. you may see the Indian Penal Code and definations are given in the said Act.

377.

Unnatural offences.

377. Unnatural offences.--Whoever voluntarily has carnal

intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal,

shall be punished with 1*[imprisonment for life], or with

imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten

years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Explanation.-Penetration is sufficient to constitute the carnal

intercourse necessary to the offence described in this section.

350.

Criminal force.

350. Criminal force.--Whoever intentionally uses force to any

person, without that person's consent, in order to the committing of

any offence, or intending by the use of such force to cause, or

knowing it to be likely that by the use of such force he will cause

injury, fear or annoyance to the person to whom the force is used, is

said to use criminal force to that other.

Illustrations

(a) Z is sitting in a moored boat on a river. A unfastens the

moorings, and thus intentionally causes the boat to drift down the

stream. Here A intentionally causes motion to Z, and he does this by

disposing substances in such a manner that the motion is produced

without any other action on any person's part. A has therefore

intentionally used force to Z; and if he has done so without Z's

consent, in order to the committing of any offence, or intending or

knowing it to be likely that this use of force will cause injury, fear

or annoyance to Z, A has used criminal force to Z.

(b) Z is riding in a chariot. A lashes Z's horses and thereby

causes them to quicken their pace. Here A has caused change of motion

to Z by inducing the animals to change their motion. A has therefore

used force to Z; and if A has done this without Z's consent, intending

or knowing it to be likely that he may thereby injure, frighten or

annoy Z, A has used criminal force to Z.

(c) Z is riding in a palanquin. A, intending to rob Z, seizes the

pole and stops the palanquin. Here A has caused cessation of motion to

Z, and he has done this by his own bodily power. A has therefore used

force to Z; and as A has acted thus intentionally, without Z's

consent, in order to the commission of an offence. A has used

criminal force to Z.

(d) A intentionally pushes against Z in the street. Here A has by

his own bodily power moved his own person so as to bring it into

contact with Z. He has therefore intentionally used force to Z; and if

he has done so without Z's consent, intending or knowing it to be

likely that he may thereby injure, frighten or annoy Z, he has used

criminal force to Z.

(e) A throws a stone, intending or knowing it to be likely that

the stone will be thus brought into contact with Z, or with Z's

clothes, or with something carried by Z, or that it will strike water,

and dash up the water against Z's clothes or something carried by Z.

Here, if the throwing of the stone produce the effect of causing any

substance to come into contact with Z, or Z's clothes, A has used

force to Z, and if he did so without Z's consent, intending thereby to

injure, frighten or annoy Z, he has used criminal force to Z.

(f) A intentionally pulls up a Woman's veil. Here A intentionally

uses force to her, and if he does so without her consent intending or

knowing it to be likely that he may thereby injure, frighten or

annoy her, he has used criminal force to her.

(g) Z is bathing. A pours into the bath water which he knows to

be boiling. Here A intentionally by his own bodily power causes such

motion in the boiling water as brings that water into contact with Z,

or with other water so situated that such contact must affect Z's

sense of feeling, A has therefore intentionally used force to Z; and

if he has done this without Z's consent intending or knowing it to be

likely that he may thereby cause injury, fear or annoyance to Z, A has

used criminal force.

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(h) A incites a dog to spring upon Z, without Z's consent. Here,

if A intends to cause injury, fear or annoyance to Z, he uses

criminal force to Z.