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Definition :

Attempt to commit crime, an attempt to commit an offence is an act, or a series of acts, which leads inevitably to the commission of the offence, unless something, which the doer of the act neither foresaw nor intended, happens to prevent this. An attempt may be described to be an act done in part-execution of a criminal design, amounting to more than mere preparation, but falling short of actual consummation, and, possessing, except for failure to consummate, all the elements of the substantive crime. In other words, an attempt consists in it

the intent to commit a crime, falling short of, its actual commission or consummation/completion, Koppula Venkata Rao v. State of Andhra Pradesh, (2004) 3 SCC 602 (606); see also Aman Kumar v. State of Haryana, (2004) 4 SCC 379. (Penal Code, 1860, s. 511)