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: When two or more persons agree to do an illegal act, it is criminal conspiracy punishable with imprisonment.

Facts: Mr. Bharath is a student of B.E. in computer science.He loves his computer very much. He considers his computer as his close friend and companion. On 1 April 2006, while interacting with his computer, he hacked into the bank account of Mr. Javed ad was successful in withdrawing money from Mr, Javed'sbank account. He did this to please his girlfriend.

• A. Mr. Bharath has committed an offence.
• B. Mr. Bharath has committed a cyber-crime.
• C. Mr. Bharath has not committed the offence of criminal conspiracy.
• D. None of the above.

Answer 1

The correct option is B Mr. Bharath has committed a cyber-crime.

Mr. Bharath has committed a cyber crime.

In the above mentioned case, criminal conspiracy doesn't took place.

Criminal conspiracy is expectation to commit an offence and holding hands with people having a similar goal.

Mr. Bharath himself commited a crime. There is no involvement of any other person which is a basic requirement to commit a criminal conspiracy.