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Defraud, the expression 'defraud' involves two elements, namely, deceit and injury to the person deceived. Injury is something other than economic loss that is, deprivation of property, whether movable or immovable, or of money, and it will include any harm whatever caused to any person in body, mind, reputation or such others. In short, it is non-economic or non-pecuniary loss, Vimla (Dr.) v. Delhi Administration, AIR 1963 SC 1572 (1576): (1963) 2 Cri LJ 434. (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 460)

Is to deprive by deceit, it is by deceit to induce a man to act to his injury. More tersely it may be put that to deceive is by false hood to induce a state of mind and to defraud is by deceit to induce a course of action, London and Globe Finance Corpn. Ltd. (in re:), (1903) 1 Ch 728