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Principle: Assault is Causing Bodily Injury to Another Person by Use of Physical Force.

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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

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Solution

not committed an assault on Sheetal

Explanation:

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

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Law of Torts (Entrance Exams)
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