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CRIMINAL INTIMIDATION.

No. 13 of 1920.

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No. 13 of 1920.

An Ordinance to restrain certain acts of intimidation.

[19th November, 1920.]

[Originally No. 13 of 1920.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Criminal Intimidation Short title. Ordinance, 1920.

2. Every person who threatens any other person-

Certain acts

of intimida-

(1) with any injury to the person, reputation or property of tion pro- 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—

or

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

(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,

hibited. Indian Penal Code, s. 503.

shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.

3. *Every person who beats or uses any violence or force Assaults 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 certain acts 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.

with intent

to cause

to be done or omitted.

No defence to prove that

4. It shall be no defence to a charge under section 2 to prove that the threat was not addressed directly to the person the threat whose person, reputation or property was to be injured, or to was not the person (if any) against whom the illegal act

to be

directly. committed, or to the person whom it was intended to alarm, or if to the person whose conduct was intended to be affected,

was

made

* See No. 10 of 1886, Second Schedule.