Whoever commits extortion by putting any person in fear of an accusation against that person or any other, of having committed, or attempted to commit, any offence punishable with death, or with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, or of having attempted to induce any other person to commit such 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; and if the offence is one punishable under section 377, may be punished with imprisonment for life2008.
Section history
Section 388 — Extortion by threat of accusation of an offence punishable with death, or imprisonment, etc.
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 388 — Original text to 30 November 2008superseded
Section 388 — From 30 November 2008 (current)rewritten by the Revised Edition
Whoever commits extortion by putting any person in fear of an accusation against that person or any other, of having committed, or attempted to commit, an offence punishable with death, or with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, or of having attempted to induce any other person to commit such 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. 388]