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 1-4-2006, while interacting with his computer, he hacked into the bank account of Mr. Javed and was successful in withdrawing money from Mr. Javed's bank account. He did it to please his girl friend.

Mr. Bharath has committed an offence

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Mr. Bharath has committed an cyber-crime

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Mr. Bharath has not committed the offence of criminal consipracy

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None of the above

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Solution

The correct option is C Mr. Bharath has not committed the offence of criminal consipracy
Criminal conspiracy is defined under Section 120-A of IPC. Mr. Bharath has not committed the offence of criminal conspiracy since for criminal conspiracy the main essential is that there should be more than 2 persons involved in the agreement to do the illegal act.
Mr, Bharath hacked into Mr. Javed's computer alone and there was no involvement of any other person. Therefore, he has not committed the offence of criminal conspiracy.
Hence, C is the correct option.

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