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BA-LL.B. (Semester 7): All You Need to Know

 Indian Evidence Act

Unit - I

  • - Definitions and Relevancy of Facts Ss 1-16
  • - Admissions and ConfessionsSs 17-31
  • - Statements by Persons who cannot be called as witnesses Ss 32-33
  • - Statements made under special Circumstances Ss 34-38
  • - How much of a statement is to be proved S- 39
  • - Judgement of Courts of Justice when releventSs 40-44
  • - Opinions of Third Persons when relevant Ss 45-51
  • - Character when relevant Ss 52-55
  • - Facts which need not be proved Ss 55-58
  • - Of Oral Evidence Ss 59-60
  • - Of Documentary Evidence Ss 61-90
Unit - II
  • - Of the Exclusion of Oral by Documentary Evidence Ss 91-100
  • - Of the Burden of Proof Ss 101-114-A
  • - Estoppel Ss 115-117
  • - Of Witnesses Ss 118-134
  • - Of the Examination of Witnesses Ss 135-166
  • - Of Improper Admission and Rejection of Evidence S- 167


Tenancy and Land Laws

PunjabLand Revenue Act, 1887

  • Definition of Key words
  • Revenue officers and their powers
  • Revenue Records
  • Assessment of land revenue
  • Collection of land revenue
  • Partition
  • Jurisdiction of civil courts under Land Revenue Law

Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887 & Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act, 1953

  • Definition of key words
  • Classes of tenants
  • Law of rent
  • Law of ejectment of tenant
  • Relief for wrongful dispossession of tenant
  • Improvements and compensation
  • Evaluation of Tenancy Laws
  • Unit - II
  • Punjab Land Reforms Act, 1972
  • Principles of economic and social justice and land reforms
  • Definition of key words
  • Permissible area
  • Determination of permissible and surplus area
  • Utilization of surplus area
  • Lands exempted from ceiling
  • Evaluation of Land Reform in Punjab

The Right to Fair Compensation and transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013

  • Definition of KeyWords
  • Determination of Social Impact and Public Purpose
  • Notification and Acquisition
  • Rehabilitation, Resettlement Award, procedure and Manner
  • National Monitoring Committee and Establishment of Land
  • Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Authority
  • Apportionment of Compensation and Payment
  • Offences and Penalities


Indian Penal Code

- Group liability on the basis of common intention
- Unlawful Assembly
- Liability of a member of unlawful assembly
- Abetment
- Criminal Conspiracy
- Stages in the commission of crime
- Mistake and Defence
- Types of Punishment under the Indian Penal Code
- Intoxication
- Insanity as a defence to criminal liability
- Offences against morality (Sections 292-294 I.P.C)
- Culpable homicide and Murder
- Death by rash or negligent act
- Simple and grievous hurt
- Criminal force and Assault
- Kidnapping and Abduction
- Outraging the modesty of a woman
- Sexual Offences
- Bigamy
- Dowry death
- Cruelty by husband or relative of husband
- Cheating
- Theft, Extortion, Robbery and Dacoity
- Criminal misappropriation of property and Criminal breach of trust
- Sedition
- Defamation

Information Technology and RTI Act

- Need, Aims, Objectives and Application of Information Technology Act, 2000
- Definitions : Computer, Computer Network, Computer Resource, Computer
System, e-record, Information, Asymmetric crypto system
- Legal Recognition of Electronic Documents
- Legal Recognition of Digital Signatures
- E-Governance
- Attribution, Acknowledgement and Dispatch of e-record
- Regulation of Certifying Authorities
- Duties of Subscriber
- Offences, Contraventions and Extra Territorial Jurisdiction
- Penalties and Adjudication
- Service Providers and their exemption from liability
- Investigation and procedure of search and seizure
- Grey areas of IT Act, 2000
Unit-II
- Historical Background of Right to Information : Colonial and Post Independent
Secnario, British and American experiences
- Significance of Right to Information in Democracy
- Constitutional basis of RTI with special reference to Art. 19 and 21 of the
Constitution of India
- Supreme Court on Right to Information
- Reasons, Aims, Objectives and Application of Right to Information Act, 2005
- Definitions, Right to Information and obligations of Public Authorities
- Central Information Commission, State Information Commission
- Powers and Functions of Information Commissions
- Appeals and Penalties
- Miscellaneous Provisions





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