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The principle is to be applied to the given facts and to choose the most appropriate option:
Principle: Penal laws provide that whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man or woman, shall be punished for rape.
Facts: A Police Officer found a man engaged in carnal intercourse with an animal. The Police Officer arrested the man and produced him before the Court.
Options
Court will not punish the police officer
Court will punish the police officer.
Court will not punish the man for rape.
Court will punish the man for rape.
Solution
Court will not punish the man for rape.
Explanation:
According to the principle, any carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man or woman is punishable for rape by the Court. The principle does not include the act with an animal and thus, the man will not be punished by the court.
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