1950_CRIMINAL_INTIMIDATION_ORDINANCE — Page 1

CAP. 205]

Originally

13 of 1920. Fraser 13 of 1920.

22 of 1950.

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

Criminal Intimidation.

CHAPTER 205.

CRIMINAL INTIMIDATION.

To restrain certain acts of intimidation.

[19th November, 1920.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Criminal Intimidation Ordinance.

2. Any person who threatens any other person-

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

(a)

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

(c) with any illegal act,

with intent in any such case—

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

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

(iii) 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.

3.

Any 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.

4.

It shall be no defence to a charge under section 2 to prove that the threat was not addressed directly to the made directly. person whose 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, if 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

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