BNS Section 351 - Criminal intimidation

351. Criminal intimidation.--(1) Whoever threatens another by any means, with any injury to his

person, reputation or property, or to the person or reputation of any one in whom that person is interested,

with intent to cause alarm to that person, or to cause that person to do any act which he is not legally

bound to do, or to omit to do any act which that person is legally entitled to do, as the means of avoiding

the execution of such threat, commits criminal intimidation.

Explanation.-- A threat to injure the reputation of any deceased person in whom the person

threatened is interested, is within this section.

Illustration.

A, for the purpose of inducing B to resist from prosecuting a civil suit, threatens to burn B’s house. A

is guilty of criminal intimidation.

(2) 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.

(3) Whoever commits the offence of criminal intimidation by threatening 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, or 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.

(4) Whoever commits the offence of criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication, or

having taken precaution to conceal the name or abode of the person from whom the threat comes, shall be

punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, in addition

to the punishment provided for the offence under sub-section (1).