Lawgist503Criminal intimidation
Whoever threatens another 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.
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- 503 Criminal intimidation
- 504 Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace
- 505 Statements conducing to public mischief
- 506 Punishment for criminal intimidation
- 507 Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication
- 508 Act caused by inducing person to believe that he will be rendered an object of the Divine displeasure
- 509 Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman
- 510 Misconduct in public by a drunken person
