IPC 506 — Punishment for criminal intimidation

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Statutory text

Whoever commits the offence of  criminal intimidation  shall be punished with imprisonment of either  description for  a term  which may  extend to two years, or with fine, or with both;
If threat be to cause death or grievous hurt, etc.
If threat  be to  cause death  or grievous hurt, etc.--and if the threat be to cause death or grievous hurt, or to cause the destruction of any  property by fire, or to cause an offence punishable with death or [imprisonment for life], of with imprisonment   for  a term which may extend  to seven  years, or to impute unchastity to a woman, shall be punished  with imprisonment  of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both.

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