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To protect the shop from losses, a shopkeeper checks the facts with due care and in good faith tells…

Exception 9 to Section 356(1) protects an imputation made in good faith to protect the maker's interests. Section 2(11) requires due care and attention for good faith. The…

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To protect the shop from losses, a shopkeeper checks the facts with due care and in good faith tells the manager to sell to Z only for immediate payment, adding that the shopkeeper doubts Z's honesty. Under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, which conclusion follows?

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Exception 9 to Section 356(1) protects an imputation made in good faith to protect the maker's interests. Section 2(11) requires due care and attention for good faith. The shopkeeper acts with due care to protect the shop's interests.

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Option A

Section 356(1), Exception 9, expressly protects a good-faith imputation made to protect the maker's interests.

Option B

Exception 9 protects a qualifying good-faith imputation made to protect an interest. It does not make proof that the imputation was true a separate condition.

Option C

The shopkeeper does not threaten injury to compel or alarm anyone within Section 351.

Option D

Exception 9 and its shopkeeper illustration apply when the statement is made in good faith to protect the maker's interests.

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