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Intent to annoy, the correct position in law may, be stated thus: In order to establish that the entry on the property was with the intent to annoy, intimi-date or insult, it is necessary for the Court to be satisfied that causing such annoyance, intimidation or insult was the aim of the entry; that it is not sufficient for that purpose to show merely that the natural consequence of the entry was likely to be annoyance, intimidation or insult, and that this likely consequence was known to the person enter-ing; that in deciding whether the aim of the entry was the causing of such annoyance, intimidation or insult, the Court has to consider all the relevant circumstances including the presence of know-ledge that its natural consequences would be such annoyance, intimidation or insult and including also the probability or something else than the causing of such intimidation, insult or annoyance, being the dominant intention which prompted the entry, (AIR 1964 SC 986); Rash Behari Chatterjee v. Fagu Shaw, AIR 1970 SC 20: (1969) 2 SCC 216: (1970) 1 SCR 425. [Penal Code, 1860, s. 441]