LawgistThe Indian Penal Code
347Wrongful confinement to extort property, or constrain to illegal act
Whoever wrongfully confines any person for the purpose of extorting from the person confined, or from any person interested in the person confined, any property or valuable security or of constraining the person confined or any person interested in such person to do anything illegal or to give any information which may facilitate the commission of an offence, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine.
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Of wrongful restraint and wrongful confinement
- 339 Wrongful restraint
- 340 Wrongful confinement
- 341 Punishment for wrongful restraint
- 342 Punishment for wrongful confinement
- 343 Wrongful confinement for three or more days
- 344 Wrongful confinement for ten or more days
- 345 Wrongful confinement of person for whose liberation writ has been issued
- 346 Wrongful confinement in secret
- 347 Wrongful confinement to extort property, or constrain to illegal act
- 348 Wrongful confinement to extort confession, or compel restoration of property
