IPC Section 503 - Criminal intimidation

503. Criminal 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 ci vil suit, threatens to burn B's house. A is g uilty of criminal

intimidation.