MPSC State Service 2020 · CSAT · Question 11 of 77

Passage: Read the following passage and answer the questions. Of Force, Criminal Force and Assault 349. Force - A person is said to use force to another if he causes motion, change of motion, or cessation of motion to that other, or if he causes to any substance such motion, or change of motion, or cessation of motion as brings that substance into contact with any part of that other՚s body, or with anything which that other is wearing or carrying, or with anything so situated that such contact affects that other՚s sense of feeling. Provided that the person causing the motion, or change of motion, or cessation of motion, causes that motion, change of motion, or cessation of motion in one of the three ways hereinafter described. First - By his own bodily power. Secondly - By disposing any substance in such a manner that the motion or change or cessation of motion takes place without any further act on his part, or on the part of any other person. Thirdly - By inducing any animal to move, to change its motion, or to cease to move. 350. Criminal force - Whoever intentionally uses force to any person, without that person՚s consent, in order to the committing of any offence, or intending by the use of such force to cause, or knowing it to be likely that by the use of such force he will cause injury, fear or annoyance to the person to whom the force is used, is said to use criminal force to that other. 351. Assault - Whoever makes any gesture, or any preparation intending or knowing it to be likely that such gesture or preparation will cause any person present to apprehend that he who makes that gesture or preparation is about to use criminal force to that person, is said to commit an assault. Explanation - Mere words do not amount to an assault. But the words which a person uses may give to his gestures of preparation such a meaning as may make those gestures or preparations amount to an assault. “A” intentionally pushes against “Y” in the street. “A” has done so without “Y՚s” consent, intending to cause injury to “Y”. The act of “A” is ________.

Reading Comprehension

1. AForce
2. BCriminal ForceCorrect
3. CAssault
4. DNone of the above