This section covers voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal to an act in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
Voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal act.
(1) Whoever voluntarily causes hurt for the purpose of extorting from the sufferer, or from any person interested in the sufferer, any property or valuable security, or of constraining the sufferer or any person interested in such sufferer to do anything which is illegal or which may facilitate the commission of an offence, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
(2) Whoever voluntarily causes grievous hurt for any purpose referred to in sub-section (1), shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Read also Section 116 in THE BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023 – BNS
What was the old IPC code for Section 119 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal to an act was covered in S. 327, S. 329.