Directions: Legal Principles (For Questions 1 to 38) 1. Legal Principle: Whoever, intending to take dishonestly any movable 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.2. Legal Principle: 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 of valuable security, or anything signed or sealed which may be converted into a valuable security, commits ‘extortion’.3. Legal Principle: Whoever dishonestly misappropriates or converts to his own use any movable property, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.4. Legal Principle: Whoever, being in any manner entrusted with property, or with any dominion over property, dishonestly misappropriates or converts to his own use that property, or dishonestly use or disposes of that property in violation of any direction of law prescribing the mode in which such trust is to be discharged, or of any legal contract, express or implied, which he has made touching the discharge of such trust, or willfully suffers any other person to do so, commits ‘criminal breach of trust’.5. Legal Principle: Whoever, by deceiving any person, fraudulently or dishonestly induces the person so deceived to deliver any property to any person, or to consent that any person shall retain any property, or intentionally induces the person so deceived to do or omit to do anything which he would not do or omit if he were not so deceived, and which act or omission causes or is likely to cause damage or harm to that person in body, mind, reputation, or property, is said to ‘cheat’.6. Legal Principle: A person is said to ‘cheat by personating’ if he cheats by pretending to be some other person, or by knowingly substituting one person for another, representing that he or any other person is a person other than he or such other person really is.1. Factual Situation: A finds a ring belonging to Z on a table in the latter’s house and puts the same under the carpet there with the intention of taking it afterwards. The ring still lies in the house of Z undetected. Later, A, by a change of mind, decides not to take the ring. Has he still committed any crime? Issue: What offence, if any, has been committed? Decision:

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Directions: Legal Principles (For Questions 1 to 38) <br />1. Legal Principle: Whoever, intending to take dishonestly any movable 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.<br />2. Legal Principle: 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 of valuable security, or anything signed or sealed which may be converted into a valuable security, commits ‘extortion’.<br />3. Legal Principle: Whoever dishonestly misappropriates or converts to his own use any movable property, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.<br />4. Legal Principle: Whoever, being in any manner entrusted with property, or with any dominion over property, dishonestly misappropriates or converts to his own use that property, or dishonestly use or disposes of that property in violation of any direction of law prescribing the mode in which such trust is to be discharged, or of any legal contract, express or implied, which he has made touching the discharge of such trust, or willfully suffers any other person to do so, commits ‘criminal breach of trust’.<br />5. Legal Principle: Whoever, by deceiving any person, fraudulently or dishonestly induces the person so deceived to deliver any property to any person, or to consent that any person shall retain any property, or intentionally induces the person so deceived to do or omit to do anything which he would not do or omit if he were not so deceived, and which act or omission causes or is likely to cause damage or harm to that person in body, mind, reputation, or property, is said to ‘cheat’.<br />6. Legal Principle: A person is said to ‘cheat by personating’ if he cheats by pretending to be some other person, or by knowingly substituting one person for another, representing that he or any other person is a person other than he or such other person really is.<br />1. Factual Situation: A finds a ring belonging to Z on a table in the latter’s house and puts the same under the carpet there with the intention of taking it afterwards. The ring still lies in the house of Z undetected. Later, A, by a change of mind, decides not to take the ring. Has he still committed any crime? Issue: What offence, if any, has been committed? Decision:





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