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:

Principle: Whoever with the intent to cause, or knowing that he is likely to cause, wrongful loss or damage to the public or to any person, causes the destruction of property, or any such change in any property or in the situation thereof as destroys or diminishes its value or utility, or affects it injurously, commits mischief.

Factual Situation: A entered B's house to take away her TV. When he was carrying the TV out of the house, he encountered B near the door. He left the TV behind and ran away.

• A. A has committed theft.
• B. A has committed robbery.
• C. A has committed both theft and robbery.
• D. A has neither committed theft nor robbery.

Answer 1

The correct option is A A has committed theft.

A has committed theft.

Section 378 of IPC tells about the concept of theft. A has committed theft as he took the TV in the presence of B, by encountering or trying to take away TV in front of him. But, robbery means stealing something in the absence.

Hence, A is the correct option.