Multiple choice

X meets Z on the National Highway, shows a knife and demands money, and gold ornaments found on the body of Z. He has committed

  1. theft

  2. dacoity

  3. extortion

  4. robbery

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Whoever intentionally puts any person in fear of any injury to that person or to any other and thereby dishon­estly induces the person so put in fear to deliver to any person any property or valuable security or anything signed or sealed which may be converted into a valuable security, commits “extor­tion". X has committed the offence of extortion.