Multiple choice

Extortion becomes robbery when

  1. force is used in taking away the property

  2. committed by more than one person

  3. property is delivered under the fear of instant death

  4. property is delivered under the fear of an injury
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Explanation

The offence of extortion becomes robbery if the offender at the time of committing the extortion, in the presence of the person, puts in fear and commits the extortion by putting that person in fear of instant death or of instant hurt or of instant wrongful restraint to that person or to some other person and by so putting in fear, induces the person so put in fear then and there to deliver up the thing so extorted.

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