Legal Question in Criminal Law in India

PRINCIPLE: According to the doctrine of vicarious liability, a person shall be liable for the damage caused by his employee in the course of employment.
A is a big trader in sweets and he appointed X as his agent to procure sweets from the sweet factories in a particular region. Normally, used to collect sweets from the factories and the payments would be made within a month. This arrangement was going on for sometime. There arose some problems between A and X and A terminated X's employment. X continued to procure sweets even thereafter and he disappeared with the sweeta so procured. The sweet manufacturers filed a suit against A claiming payment?
1) A is not liable to pay since X was not in his employment at the relevant period of time
. 2) A is liable, since the sweet manufacturers did not have reason to disbelieve X and had handed the sweets to him.
3) A is liable, since he failed to check X from posing himself as the agent of A.
4) None of the above.
please explain the reason also..

Asked on 12/13/13, 4:21 am

anuradha Dixit +9312411481 dixitlawfirm

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this is a students query and not a clients. please do some hard work it will help you in the long run. good luck.

Answered on 12/15/13, 3:57 am

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