For a defence of intoxication, to escape criminal liability, the degeneration of mental faculties:

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• For a defence of intoxication, to escape criminal liability, the intoxication:
• Assertion (A): The Indian Penal code contains certain exceptions from criminal liability. Reason (R): There cannot be universal criminal liability in all circumstances. Of the above statements.
• Consider the following statements: To justify as a defence to a charge of crime: 1. Irresistible impulse per se is no defence to a charge of crime. 2. Diminished responsibility is a defence to a charge of a crime. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
• For unsoundness of mind, the impairment of the cognitive faculty of mind to escape criminal liability:
• Give correct response. A girl of 13 years while going to the market passed through the gate of a mill where B was the only watchman on duty. B in a bid to commit rape caught the girl. She struggled but the accused shut her mouth and pressed the thumb of the other hand on her throat to prevent her from screaming. The girl died. The accused was tried for murder. B pleaded intoxication in his defence. It was held that :
• Which one of the following is not correct in case of defence of intoxication?
• Intoxication as defence is contained in:
• Consider the following two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R): Assertion (A): There is no liability for an attempt to commit an impossible theft. Reason (R): No criminal liability can be incurred under Section 511 of the Indian Penal Code for an attempt to do an act which, if done will not be an offence. Of the above statements.
• Assertion (A): There is no liability for an attempt to commit an impossible theft. Reason (R): No criminal liability can be incurred under Section 511 of the Indian Penal Code for an attempt to do an act which, if done, will not be an offence.
• Assertion (A): X, because of unsoundness of mind, not knowing the nature of the act attacks Y, who in self-defence and in order to ward of the attack, hits him thereby causing him hurt. Y does not commit an offence. Reason (R): Y had a right of private defence against X under Section 98 of the Indian Penal Code. Of the above statements.