IPC 327 — Voluntarily causing hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal to an act

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Statutory text

Whoever  voluntarily causes  hurt, for the purpose of  extorting from the sufferer, or from any person interested in the sufferer, any property or valuable security, or of constraining the sufferer  or any person interested in such sufferer to do anything which is illegal or which may facilitate the commission of an 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.
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Causing hurt  by means  of poison,  etc., with  intent to  commit  and

offence.

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