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IPC Section 347 - Wrongful confinement to extort property , or constrain to illegal act
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IPC Section 347 deals with wrongful confinement to extort property , or constrain to illegal act.
Full official legal text
347. Wrongful 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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