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OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY

Pyare Lal Bhargava v. State of Rajasthan AIR 1963 SC 1

ISSUE:

Whether the appellant can be held liable for the offence of theft?

RULE:

Taking need not be permanent: It is not necessary that the taking should be of a permanent character, or that the accused should have derived any profit. A temporary removal of an office file from the office of a Chief Engineer and making it available to a private person for a day or two amounts to the offence of theft.

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OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY

K.N. Mehra v. State AIR 1957 SC 369

ISSUE:

Whether the appellant's actions constituted the offence of theft as under section 378 of the Indian Penal Code?

RULE:

A temporary retention of property by a person wrongfully gaining thereby or a temporary keeping out of property from the person legally entitled thereto, may amount to theft under S. 378 of the-Indian Penal Code

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