Directions: Each question consists of legal propositions/principles and facts. These principles have to be applied to the given facts to arrive at the most reasonable conclusion. Principle: Wherever the causing of a certain eff ect - or an attempt to cause that eff ect - by an act or by an omission - is an off ence - it is to be understood that the causing of that eff ect partly by an act and partly by an omission is the same off ence. Facts: A intentionally omitted to give food to his father. He also used to beat his father. Consequently A's father died.