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X is a good swimmer. He finds Y, a child of seven years of age, drowning in a canal. He could have saved the child but did not do so. The child is drowned, X is guilty of:

A. No offence

B. Murder

C. Abetment of suicide

D. Culpable homicide not amounting to murder

Answer: Option A


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