Indian Penal Code, 1860
, with intent to compel or restrain the exercise of any lawful power.--Whoever, with the intention of inducing or compelling the [President] of India, or [Governor ] of any State, to exercise or refrain from exercising in any manner any of the lawful powers of such [President or [Governor ], assaults or wrongfully restrains, or attempts wrongfully to restrain, or overawes, by means of criminal force or the show of criminal force, or attempts so to overawe, such [President or [Governor ], 1. S. 121A ins. by Act 27 of 1870, s. 4.