Question:medium

Principle: Whoever attempts to commit the offence of cheating, commits an offence.
Facts: A with an intention to defraud B, obtains from him an amount of Rs. 500.

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An offence of cheating is committed once the act has been carried out successfully, not just attempted.
Updated On: Jul 15, 2026
  • A has committed no offence
  • A has committed the offence of cheating
  • A has attempted to commit the offence of cheating
  • A has attempted to commit and has committed the offence of cheating
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The Correct Option is B

Approach Solution - 1

If even an attempt to cheat is an offence under the principle, a successful, completed act of cheating must also be one, only more clearly so.

  1. No offence committed: Wrong, A acted with fraudulent intent and actually obtained money from B.
  2. Offence of cheating: A went beyond attempting and actually obtained Rs. 500 through deceit, so the completed offence of cheating has been committed.
  3. Attempted the offence of cheating: Understates what happened, A did not merely try, he succeeded in obtaining the money.
  4. Attempted and committed: Redundant, once the offence is complete, calling it also an attempt adds nothing accurate.

The correct answer is A has committed the offence of cheating.

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Approach Solution -2

Assuming each option true.

  1. No offence committed: Assume true, then even an attempt must not qualify as an offence, contradicting the principle's own baseline that attempt alone suffices. Since A did more than attempt, actually obtaining Rs. 500 through fraud, this assumption fails at the very first step.
  2. Offence of cheating: Assume true, then A's conduct must have gone beyond the attempt baseline to actual completion. A did obtain the money through fraudulent intent, not merely try to, so the assumption matches the facts.
  3. Attempted the offence of cheating: Assume true, then A's conduct must have stopped short of completion. But A actually received the Rs. 500, meaning the conduct did not stop at an attempt, so the assumption undercounts what happened.
  4. Attempted and committed: Assume true, then both descriptions would need to independently apply. Once completion has occurred, however, the attempt description becomes superfluous, since completion already includes and supersedes it, making the double description imprecise.

Only the assumption that the completed offence occurred survives, since A actually obtained the money rather than merely attempting to.

Therefore, the correct answer is A has committed the offence of cheating.

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