Indian Penal Code : Criminal intimidation. Indian Bare Acts :

Indian Penal Code,1860

Act No : 45

Section : Criminal intimidation.

503. Criminal intimidation.--Whoever threatens another with anyinjury to his person, reputation or property, or to the person orreputation of any one in whom that person is interested, with intentto cause alarm to that person, or to cause that person to do any actwhich he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do any act whichthat person is legally entitled to do, as the means of avoiding theexecution of such threat, commits criminal intimidation. Explanation.-A threat to injure the reputation of any deceasedperson in whom the person threatened is interested, is within thissection. Illustration A, for the purpose of inducing B to resist from prosecuting acivil suit, threatens to burn B's house. A is guilty of criminalintimidation.