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.
Section history
Section 503 — Criminal intimidation
As in force on 1 February 2008.
Timeline 4 versions
- 30 March 1987 Enacted
- 1 February 2008 You are here
- 30 November 2008 Revised edition
- 31 December 2021 Revised edition
- 17 August 2026 Latest
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 desist from prosecuting a civil suit, threatens to burn B’s house. A is guilty of criminal intimidation.