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What kind of incapacity does section 22 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 require for the…

Section 22 concerns legal incapacity at the time of the act. Unsoundness of mind must make the person unable to know the nature of the act or that it is wrong or contrary to…

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What kind of incapacity does section 22 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 require for the unsoundness-of-mind exception?

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Section 22 concerns legal incapacity at the time of the act. Unsoundness of mind must make the person unable to know the nature of the act or that it is wrong or contrary to law.

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Option A

The diagnosis must be connected to the statutory incapacity at the relevant time.

Option B

This identifies the statutory legal test.

Option C

Moral judgment alone does not establish the statutory inability to know.

Option D

Later memory loss does not by itself establish incapacity when the act occurred.

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