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

Indian Penal Code (IPC) 1860 Offences Against Property

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

Wrongful restraint is 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.

None of the above

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Explanation:

Section 339 of Indian Penal Code - 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.
Section 340 of Indian Penal Code - 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.