Multiple choice

Y holds Z down and fraudulently takes Z's money from Z's clothes without Z's consent. Y has committed

  1. theft

  2. extortion

  3. dishonest misappropriation of property

  4. robbery

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D Correct answer
Explanation

Option (1) is incorrect: Whoever, intending to take dishonestly any moveable property out of the possession of any person without that person's consent, moves that property in order to such taking, is said to commit theft. Option (2) 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 (3) is incorrect: Dishonest misappropriation and converting the property into his own use is called criminal misappropriation of property. Option (4) is correct: Whoever commits 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, is said to commit robbery.