X, a rich person residing at Kochi, sends Rs. 50,000/- to his agent at Chennai with a direction that the money be given equal to two poor students A and B who are studying in the Engineering College over there. Instead of doing so, the agent gives the money equally to two other very poor deserving students. The agent has committed:

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