NEET PG Medical – 2018 – Question – 78
M’naghten rule comes under which section of IPC?
a) Crpc 84
b) C pc 48
c) Ipc 84
d) IPC 48
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Correct Answer – C
Answer: C. Ipc 84
M’naghten rule (legal test or right or wrong test) :
- It states that an accused person is not legally responsible, if it is clearly proved that at the time of committing the crime, person was suffering from such a defect of reason from abnormality of mind that he didn’t know the nature and quality of act he was doing or that what he was doing was wrong i.e. a person is not responsible if he is not of sound mind.
- It is accepted in india as law of criminal responsibility and is embodied in section 84 1PC as – “nothing is an offence which is done by a person, who at the time of doing it, by reason of unsoundness of mind is incapable of knowing the nature of act, or that he is doing what is either wrong or contrary to law”.
