Multiple choice

A pulled an ear ring away from a woman’s ear and thereby, tore and wounded her ear. A is guilty of

  1. extortion

  2. misappropriation

  3. mischief

  4. robbery
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Option (1) is incorrect: Whoever intentionally puts any person in fear of any injury to that person and thereby, dishonestly induces the person so put in fear to deliver any property, commits extortion.

Option (2) is incorrect: Misappropriation is when a person dishonestly misappropriates or converts to his own use any movable property.

Option (3) is correct: Whoever with intent to cause, or knowing that he is likely to cause, wrongful loss or damage to the public or to any person, causes the destruction of any property, or any such change in any property or in the situation thereof as destroys or diminishes its value or utility, or affects it injuriously, commits “mischief”. Option (4) is incorrect: Robbery is when a person commits the extortion by putting that person in fear of instant death, of instant hurt or of instant wrongful restraint to that person and by so putting in fear induces the person to deliver up the thing extorted.

 

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