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PRINCIPLE: Assault is causing bodily injury to another person by use of physical force.

FACTS: Rustum while entering into compartment of a train raised his fist in anger towards a person named Sheetal , standing just in front of him in the row, to get way to enter in the train first, but did not hit her. Rustum has ____.

A

insulted Sheetal

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rightly showed his anger

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C

committed an assault on Sheetal

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not committed an assault on Sheetal

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Solution

The correct option is C not committed an assault on Sheetal
Assault can be defined as a tort of acting intentionally, that is with either general or specific intent, causing reasonable apprehension of an immediate harmful or offensive contact in common law.
The above situation does not satisfy the elements in order to commit assault.

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