| Direction: Given below are the statements of facts of the case. After statement of facts, legal principles are given apply the principles to the facts of the case and select the most appropriate answer from among the four alternatives. |
| Principle A person is said to cause an effect 'voluntarily' whereby he intended to cause it or by means which, at the time of employing those means, he knew or had reason to believe, to be likely to cause it. |
| Facts A sets fire, by night, to an inhabited house in a large town, for the purpose of facilitating a robbery and this causes death of a person. A pleaded that he has intended the robbery, but not the causing of death and became sorry for the death caused by his act. |
A) A is liable for causing the death voluntarily though he has not intended to cause death of anyone, because he has set fire in an inhabited house not in abandoned house and it is quite natural that in such house people must be there during night
B) A is not liable because he has not intended the murder of anyone
C) A is not liable for murder but is liable for robbery only
D) A is not responsible for murder because he has not killed anyone by his own hands
Correct Answer: A
Solution :
According to the Section 39 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, here A is liable for causing death voluntarily because is order to Facilitate a robbery, he has set on fire an inhabited house and not in an abandoned house, so it is quite natural that is such house people must be there during night.
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