Question

Given below is the statement of Legal principle followed by a factual situation. Apply the principle to the facts given below and select the most appropriate answer.
LEGAL PRINCIPLE: When a person unlawfully intervenes in the chattel of another person by which the latter is deprived of its use, the former commits the tort of conversion. And nobody shall enrich himself at other's cost.
FACTUAL SITUATION: X, a patient suffering from fibroids in her uterus approached KLM Medical Institute. X was suggested to undergo surgery to remove the fibroids from her uterus. The operation was successfully performed and X was discharged after few days. One of the researchers of the KLM institute discovered some rare and unique cells in the fibroids to x and using these cells, the laboratory of KLM developed some life-saving drugs and earned rupees twenty crores from a leading international Pharma Company. When X came to know about it, she claimed five crores from the Institute.
DECISION:

विकल्प

• KLM institute need not share its income with X because X far from being deprived of the use of her fibroids was actually benefitted by its removal.

• KLM Institute need not share its income with X because the medical institute instead of destroying the waste fibroids of X conducted research on its own and invented new life-saving drugs

• KLM Institute must share its income with X because KLM could not have achieved its success without the fibroids of X

• KLM Institute must share its income with X on moral grounds.

Answer 1

KLM Institute need not share its income with X because the medical institute instead of destroying the waste fibroids of X conducted research on its own and invented new life-saving drugs