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Penal Code, 1860 (Act No. XLV of 1860).
Extortion
383. Whoever 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 133[ fear to
give donation or subscription of any kind or to deliver] to any person any
property or valuable security or anything signed or sealed which may be
converted into a valuable security, commits "extortion".
Illustrations
(a) A threatens to publish a defamatory libel concerning Z unless Z gives him
money. He thus induces Z to give him money. A has committed extortion.
(b) A threatens Z that he will keep Z's child in wrongful confinement unless Z will
sign and deliver to A a promissory note binding Z to pay certain money to�� A. Z
signs and delivers the note. A has committed extortion.
(c) A threatens to send clubmen to plough up Z's field unless Z will sign and
deliver to B and bond binding Z under a penalty to deliver certain produce to B,
and thereby induces Z to sign and deliver the bond. A has committed extortion.
(d) A, by putting Z in fear of grievous hurt, dishonestly induces Z to sign or affix
his seal to a blank paper and deliver it to A. Z signs and delivers the paper to A.
Here, as the paper so signed may be converted into a valuable security, A has
committed extortion.
Punishment for
extortion
384. Whoever commits extortion shall be punished with imprisonment of either
description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with
both.
Putting person in fear
of injury in order to
commit extortion
385. Whoever, in order to the committing of extortion, puts any person in fear,
or attempts to put any person in fear, of any injury, shall be punished with
imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to 134[ fourteen
years and shall not be less than five years], or with fine, or with both.
Extortion by putting a
person in fear of
death or grievous
hurt
386. Whoever commits extortion by putting any person in fear of death or of
grievous hurt to that person or to any other, shall be punished with imprisonment
of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be
liable to fine.
Putting person in fear
of death or of
grievous hurt, in
order to commit
extortion
387. Whoever, in order to the committing of extortion, puts or attempts to put
any person in fear of death or of grievous hurt to that person or to any other,
shall be punished with imprisonment 135[ for life and shall not be less than seven
years], and shall also be liable to fine.
Extortion by threat of
accusation of an
offence punishable
with death or
imprisonment, etc
388. Whoever commits extortion by putting any person in fear of an accusation
against that person or any other, of having committed or attempted to commit
any offence punishable with death, or with 136[ imprisonment for life], or with
imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, or of having attempted
to induce any other person to commit such offence, shall be punished with
imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and
shall also be liable to fine; and, if the offence be one punishable under section
377 of this Code, may be punished with 137[ imprisonment for life.]
Putting person in fear
of accusation of
offence in order to
commit extortion
389. Whoever, in order to the committing of extortion, puts or attempts to put
any person in fear of an accusation, against that person or any other, of having
committed, or attempted to commit, an offence punishable with death or with
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[ imprisonment] for life, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to
ten years, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term
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