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Rascally

Like a rascal trickish or dishonest base worthless often in humorous disparagement without implication of dishonesty

Knavishly

In a knavish manner dishonestly fraudulently

Abstraction

Abstraction, the word 'abstraction' in the context of s. 39 means taking or appropriation. Energy may be dishonestly abstracted by artificial means or unauthorised devices. For instance, energy before it passes through a consumer's meter may

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Entrusted

sense and includes all cases in which property is voluntarily handed over for a specific purpose and is dishonestly disposed of contrary to the terms on which possession has been handed over, Som Nath Puri v. State

Extortion

intentionally puts any person in fear of any injury to that person, or to any other, and thereby dishonestly induces the person so put in fear to deliver to any person any property or valuable security, or

Forgery

of the Indian Penal Code to mean that a person is said to make a false document who dishonestly or fraudulently makes, signs, seals or executes a document or part of a document, State of Uttar Pradesh

Stolen property

Stolen property, there can be no offence of dishonestly receiving stolen property unless the property which is alleged to be the subject of such receiving, answers the

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