Section 8(b) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989…
Section 8(b) presumes that an offence committed by a group of persons as a sequel to an existing dispute regarding land or any other matter was committed in furtherance of…
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Section 8(b) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 incorporates principles similar to which provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023?
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Correct answer C
Section 8(b) presumes that an offence committed by a group of persons as a sequel to an existing dispute regarding land or any other matter was committed in furtherance of the common intention or in prosecution of the common object. It draws on the principles of sections 3(5) and 190 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (formerly sections 34 and 149 IPC). Sections 45 and 49 deal with abetment, section 61 with criminal conspiracy, and sections 34 to 44 with private defence.