CRIMINAL INTIMIDATION ORDINANCE, 1920

CRIMINAL INTIMIDATION ORDINANCE, 1920

No. 13 of 1920.
an ordinance to restrain certain acts of intimidation.

[19th November, 1920.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Criminal Intimida-
tion Ordinance, 1920.

2. Every person who threatens any other person-

(1) with any injury to the person, reputation, or property
of such other person; or

(2) with any injury to the person, reputation, or property
of any third person, or to the reputation or estate of any
deceased person; or

(3) with any illegal act,
with intent in any such case-

(a) to alarm the person so threatened or any other person,
or

(b) to cause the person so threatened or any other person
to do any act which he is not legally bound to do, or

(c) to cause the person so threatened or any other person
to omit to do any act which he is legally entitled to do,
shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.

3. Every person who beats or uses any violence or force
to any person with intent in any such case to cause such
person or any other person to do any act which he is not
legally bound to do, or to omit to do any act which he is
legalIy entitled to do, shall be guilty of an offence against
this ordinance.

4. It shall be no defence to a charge under section 2 to
prove that the threat was not addressed directly to the person
,vhose person, reputation, or property was to be injured, or
to the person (if any) against whom the illegal act was to be
committed, or to the person whom it was intended to alarm, or
to the person whose conduct was intended to be affected,
provided that the threat was made or published in some
manner with the intention that it should reach the person
whom it was intended to alarm, or (as the case may be)
whose conduct was intended to be affected, and that it did
reach such person.

* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
5. Every person who commits an offence against this
Ordinance, and every person who attempts to do any act
which would be an Aence against this Ordinance, shall upon
sunirnary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five
hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not
exceeding six months, and shall upon conviction on indictment
be liable to imprisonment for any terin not exceeding five
years.
[Originally No. 13 of 1920. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Certain acts of intimidation prohibited. Indian Penal Code, s. 503. Assaults with intent to cause certain acts to be done or omitted. No defence to prove that the threat was not made directly. Penalties.

[Originally No. 13 of 1920. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Certain acts of intimidation prohibited. Indian Penal Code, s. 503. Assaults with intent to cause certain acts to be done or omitted. No defence to prove that the threat was not made directly. Penalties.

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