Q: Elaborate wrongful gain in IPC ?

Ans: The provisions pertaining to the offence of cheating are mentioned in sections 415 to section 420 of the Indian Penal code (IPC). The offence of cheating is established only when all the following elements are to be proved, namely:

that the representation which was made by the accused was false,

that the accused knew that the representation was false at the very time he made it,

that the accused made that false representation with the dishonest intention of tricking the person to whom it is made, and

that he thereby caused that person to deliver the property or to do or to omit to do something which he would have otherwise not done or omitted.

The phrase "wrongful gain" is broadly defined under Section 23 of the Indian Penal Code as any error, distortion, activity, or exclusion that occurs in any act as well as is regarded as a violation of the law.