Question

The principle is to be applied to the given facts and to choose the most appropriate option

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 Sheetal, just in front of him in the row, to get way to enter into the train first, but did not hit him. Rustum has:

Options

• insulted Sheetal

• Rightly showed his anger

• committed an assault on Sheetal

• not committed an assault on Sheetal

Answer 1

not committed an assault on Sheetal

Explanation:

Rustum did not cause any bodily injury to Sheetal and thus there is no assault.