Question

Given below are a legal principle and a factual situation. Apply the given legal principle to the factual situation and select the most appropriate answer to the question given below:

Legal Principle: Wherever the causing of a certain effect, or an attempt to cause that effect, by an act or by an omission, is an offence, it is to be understood that the causing of that effect partly by an act and partly by an mission is the same offence.

Factual Situation: A intentionally omitted to give food to his father. He also used to beat his father. Consequently, A's father died.

• A. A did not commit any offence
• B. A committed only the offence of omitting to give food to his father
• C. A committed only the offence of beating of his father
• D. A committed only the offence of killing of his father

Answer 1

The correct option is D A committed only the offence of killing of his father

A has committed only the offence of killing of his father.

In the above mentioned case, there were 2 actions like beating up and omission of food, which results in his father's death. There's an intention to kill. He is responsible for the murder.

The principle expresses that causing of an impact, here the death of A's father is caused mostly by an action and halfway by an omission is a similar offense.