Criminal intimidation
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Summary
Threatening someone with injury to their person, reputation, or property, or to the person or reputation of someone they care about, with the intent to cause alarm or to force them to do or omit something, is criminal intimidation. A threat about a deceased person the victim cares about also counts. The threatener becomes liable to prosecution and punishment under the Penal Code.
Example
Priya runs a neighbourhood shop. Rohan tells her he will burn the shop and spread false rumours unless she returns a sum of money; because he intended to cause alarm and force her to act, Rohan is guilty of criminal intimidation.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever threatens another with any injury to his person, reputation or property, or to the person or reputation of any one in whom that person is interested, with intent to cause alarm to that person, or to cause that person to do any act which he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do any act which that person is legally entitled to do, as the means of avoiding the execution of such threat, commits criminal intimidation.
Explanations
(1) A threat to injure the reputation of any deceased person in whom the person threatened is interested, is within this section.
Illustrations
(1) A, for the purpose of inducing B to resist from prosecuting a civil suit, threatens to burn B’ house. A is guilty of criminal intimidation.
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