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Section 327 - Indian Penal Code, 1860
Indian Penal Code, 1860
327. Voluntarily causing hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal act
Whoever voluntarily causes hurt, for the purpose of extorting from the sufferer, or from any person interested in the sufferer, any property or valuable security, or of constraining the sufferer or any person interested in such sufferer to do anything which is illegal or which may facilitate the commission of an offence, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Related Sections
- Section 70: Fine leviable within six years or during imprisonment-Death not to discharge property from liability
- Section 210: Fraudulently obtaining decree for sum not due
- Section 450: House-trespass in order to commit offence punishable with imprisonment for life
- Section 364: Kidnapping or abducting in order to murder
- Section 281: Exhibition of false light, mark or buoy
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