Which of the following is correct with respect to wrongful restraint and wrongful confinement ........

Indian Penal Code (IPC) 1860 Definition

Which of the following is correct with respect to wrongful restraint and wrongful confinement?

Wrongful restraint is not a form of wrongful confinement

Wrongful restraint is a more serious offence than wrongful confinement

In wrongful confinement, a person is merely restricted to proceed in a particular direction while in wrongful restraint, a person is restrained from moving beyond a certain area within which he is confined.

All of the above

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Explanation:

Section 339 - Wrongful restraint. 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. ExceptionThe obstruction of a private way over land or water which a person in good faith believes himself to have a lawful right to obstruct, is not an offence within the meaning of this section.

Section 340 - Wrongful confinement. Whoever wrongfully restrains any person in such a manner as to prevent that person from proceedings beyond certain circumscribing limits, is said "wrongfully to confine" that person