Criminal Intimidation: A Law Under The Indian Penal Code, 1860
Chapter XXII of IPC, 1860 contains canons of criminal intimidation, insult and annoyance . This segment includes section 503 to section 510. Intimidation refers to putting a person in a position of fear to make them do something or not do something. Thus, an act of intentionally threatening a person or someone or something he has a vested interest in involve intimidation . The purpose is to make them do something against the law for the intimidator’s profit or benefit. Intimidator might use words or actions to threaten and injure the victim’s body, property, reputation or family member. Criminal Intimidation Section 503 of IPC 1860 defines the offence of criminal intimidation. To commit the offence, a person intentionally threatens another with the fear of injury to his person, property or reputation to escape. The other person has to do an act that is against the law. The Provision gets segregated into two for better understanding. The primary portion talks ab...