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 for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine or to caning.
Section history
Section 327 — Voluntarily causing hurt to extort property or to constrain to an illegal act
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 327 — Original text to 30 November 2008superseded
Section 327 — From 30 November 2008 (current)rewritten by the Revised Edition
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 for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine or to caning.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 327]