| Q.1- | What do you mean by personation to act in legal proceeding? |
| Ans.- | Whoever falsely personates another, and in such assumed character (i) makes any admission or statement, or (ii) confesses judgment, or (iii) causes any process to be issued or becomes bail or security, or (iv) does any other act in any suit or criminal prosecution, is known as personation in legal proceeding. |
| Q.2- | What are the offences in IPC deals with different situation of personation? |
| Ans.- | Personating armed force personal u/s 140, personating public servant u/s. 170/171, personation at election u/s.171D, personation to act in legal proceeding u/s. 205, personation of juror or assessor u/s. 229 and cheating u/s. 415. |
| Q.3- | What is personation of juror? |
| Ans.- | When a represent himself represent as juror whereas he knows that he is not such person, it is called personation of juror. |
| Q.4- | Define the word ‘taken’ used in section 206? |
| Ans.- | The word ‘taken’ has been used in the sense of ‘seized’ or ‘taken possession of’. The concealment or removal of property must be to prevent the property from being taken. Where the property is already taken and the removal is subsequent, the offence under this section is not committed. |
| Q.5- | Who are punished by section 206? |
| Ans.- | This section deals with the receiver, acceptor or claimer of the property who tries to prevent its seizure as a forfeiture. |
| Q.6- | What is relation between section 206 and section 207? |
| Ans.- | Section 207 punishes the accomplice, just as the section 206 punishes the principal offender. It is clear that under sections 206 and 207, a civil suit must be actually pending before a court, and not merely intended to be filed. |
| Q.7- | What are the offences under section 208 and 210 of IPC? |
| Ans.- | Section 208 punish the offender who fraudulently suffering decree for sum not due and section 210 punish the offender for fraudulently obtaining decree for sum not due. |
| Q.8- | What is punishment for fraudulently suffering or obtaining decree for sum not due? |
| Ans.- | Section 208 and section 210, both are similar kind of offences and punished the offender for two years of imprisonment or with fine or with both. |
| Q.9- | What do you mean by dishonestly making false claim in court? |
| Ans.- | (i) The person should act fraudulently or dishonestly, or with intent to injure or annoy any person; and (ii) He should make a false claim in a Court of Justice. |
| Q.10 | What are the elements of false charge of an offence under section 211? |
| Ans.- | Ø When a person institute a criminal case against a person.
Ø He knows that he filed false case. |
| Q.11 | What are offences of harbouring offender? |
| Ans.- | Sections 212, 213, 214 and 216 deals with situations when a person in charged or bound to take in custody or harbours that person is an offence. |
| Q.12 | Whether a wife or husband can harbor their spouse? |
| Ans.- | Yes. It is not an offence if a person harbours his or her spouse. This provision does not extend to the case in which the harbour or concealment is by the husband or wife of the person to be apprehended or harbourded. |