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 Intimidation
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 entitied 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 legally 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
whose person, reputation or property was to be injured, or to
the person (if any) against whom the ilegal 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, if

See No. 10 of 1886, Second Schedule.

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.

5. Every person who commits an offence against this
Ordinance, and every person who attempts to do any act which
would be an offence against this Ordinance, shall upon summary
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 imprison-
ment for any term not exceeding five years.
[Originally No. 13 of 1920.] 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.] 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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