Indian Penal Code, 1860
503. Criminal intimidation
Whoever threatens another with any injury to his person,
reputation or property, or to the person or reputation of any one in whom that
person is interested, with intent to cause alarm to that person, or to cause
that person to do any act which he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do
any act which that person is legally entitled to do, as the means of avoiding
the execution of such threat, commits criminal intimidation.
Explanation- A threat to injure the reputation of any
deceased person in whom the person threatened is interested, is within this
section.
Illustration
A, for the purpose of inducing B to desist from prosecuting a
civil suit, threatens to burn B's house. A is guilty of criminal intimidation.