Section 339 IPC ('wrongful restraint') is committed when a person:
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A.
1. Section 339 IPC: 'Whoever voluntarily obstructs any person so as to prevent that person from proceeding in any direction in which that person has a right to proceed, is said wrongfully to restrain that person.'
2. Exception: obstruction by good-faith private way over land is not wrongful restraint.
3. Wrongful CONFINEMENT (Section 340) is a more serious form — wrongful restraint within prescribed limits.
4. The act must voluntarily prevent free movement.
5. Hence option B is correct.
_Source: Indian Penal Code 1860 / Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 / Indian Evidence Act 1872 (Bare Acts, indiacode.nic.in) — IPC, Section 339 (read with Section 340 — wrongful confinement)_
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