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A and B are joint jailors who have charge of Z, a prisoner, alternately for six hours at a time.…

Section 3(8) of the BNS makes each person who intentionally cooperates in an offence committed by several acts guilty of that offence, and section 3(4) extends acts to…

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A and B are joint jailors who have charge of Z, a prisoner, alternately for six hours at a time. Intending to cause Z's death, they knowingly cooperate by each illegally omitting, during his own time of attendance, to furnish Z with the food supplied to them for that purpose. Z dies of hunger. What is the liability of A and B?

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Section 3(8) of the BNS makes each person who intentionally cooperates in an offence committed by several acts guilty of that offence, and section 3(4) extends acts to illegal omissions. The Act illustrates this with the two jailors: "Both A and B are guilty of the murder of Z". Illegal omissions can constitute murder, and liability does not depend on whose shift it was when Z died.

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