IPC Section 329 — Voluntarily causing grievous hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal act

Summary

If a person deliberately causes serious injury to someone in order to force that person, or someone connected to them, to give up property or a valuable security, or to force them to do something illegal or that helps commit a crime, that person can be punished with life imprisonment or up to ten years in prison, and may also have to pay a fine.

Official Text

Whoever voluntarily causes grievous 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 that is illegal or which may facilitate the commission of an offence, 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.

Related Judgments

• .. Petitioner/Appellant/Accused vs State rep. by — Madras High Court ()
• VOL. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH v. N. VENUGOPAL AND OTHERS — Supreme Court of India (1964)
• STATE OF PUNJAB AND K.IRP A SHANKAR RAJ v. STATE OF U.P. MARCH 11, 1994 — Supreme Court of India (1994)
• SALIM v. STATE OF U.P. AND ORS — Supreme Court of India (2023)
• S.C.R. 857 RICHHPAL SINGH MEENA v. GHASI — Supreme Court of India (2014)
• S.C.R. 514 514 GANESAN v. STATE REP. BY STATION HOUSE OFFICER — Supreme Court of India (2021)
• ... Appellant vs The State of Tamil Nadu, — Madras High Court (2004)
• STATE OF HARYANA v. SMT. KAMLA AND ORS. APRIL 30, 1996 B — Supreme Court of India (S)

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BNS §119 — Voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal act