PRINCIPLE: A person is said to cause an effect "voluntarily" whereby he intended to cause it or by means which, at the time of employing those means, he knew or had reason to believe, to be likely to cause it.
FACTS: A sets fire, by night, to an inhabited house in a large town, for the purpose of facilitating a robbery and this causes death of a person. A pleaded that he had intended the robbery but not the causing of death and he is sorry for the death caused by his act. Is A liable for causing the death voluntarily?

A is liable for causing the death voluntarily though he has not intended to cause death of anyone, because he has set fire in an inhabited house not in abandoned house and it is quite natural that in such house people must be there during night

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A is not liable because he has not intended murder of anyone

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A is not liable for murder but is liable for robbery only

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A is not responsible for murder because he has not killed anyone by his own hands

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The correct option is A A is liable for causing the death voluntarily though he has not intended to cause death of anyone, because he has set fire in an inhabited house not in abandoned house and it is quite natural that in such house people must be there during night
The option A is self explanatory.
A did not intend to murder anyone but he should have known or had the reason to believe that setting fire to an inhabited house might lead to death of a person. Therefore he is liable for the murder of that person.

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