PRINCIPLE Everybody is under a legal obligation to take reasonable care to avoid an act or omission ...........

Legal Concepts Law of Torts

PRINCIPLE: Everybody is under a legal obligation to take reasonable care to avoid an act or omission which he can foresee would injure his neighbor. The neighbor for this purpose is any person whom he should have in his mind as likely to be affected by his act.

FACT: Krishnan while driving a car at high speed in a crowded road knocked down a cyclist. The cyclist died on the spot with a lot of blood spilling around, Lakshmi a pregnant women passing by suffered from a nervous shock, leading to abortion. Lakshmi filed a suit against Krishnan claiming damages.

Krishnan will be liable because he owed a duty to reasonable care to everybody on the road including Lakshmi.

Krishna will not be liable because he could not have foreseen Lakshmi suffering from nervous shock as a result of his act.

Krishnan will be liable to Lakshmi because he failed to drive carefully .

None of the above.

Explanation:

As per the principle, the nervous shock induced by Krishnan could not have been reasonably foreseen by Lakshmi.
Hence, option 3 is the correct answer.