IPC Section 330 — Voluntarily causing hurt to extort confession or to compel restoration of property

Summary

If a person intentionally hurts someone in order to force that person, or someone connected to them, to confess to a crime or give information that could help detect an offence or misconduct, that person is committing an offence. This section also covers hurting someone to force them, or someone connected to them, to return property or a valuable security, to satisfy a claim or demand, or to provide information that could lead to the return of property or a valuable security. The punishment for this offence can be imprisonment for up to seven years, along with a fine.

Official Text

Whoever voluntarily causes hurt, for the purpose of extorting from the sufferer or from any person interested in the sufferer, any confession or any information which may lead to the detection of an offence or misconduct, or for the purpose of constraining the sufferer or any person interested in the sufferer to restore or to cause the restoration of any property or valuable security or to satisfy any claim or demand, or to give information which may lead to the restoration of any property or valuable security, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Related Judgments

• MUKESH KUMAR vs STATE (NCT OF DELHI) — Delhi High Court (2010)
• THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH vs N. VENUGOPAL AND OTHERS — Supreme Court of India (1963)
• D.K. BASU vs STATE OF WEST BENGAL — Supreme Court of India (1996)
• YASHWANT ETC. vs THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA — Supreme Court of India (2018)
• ROSHAN LAL & ORS. vs STATE OF PUNJAB — Supreme Court of India (1964)

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BNS §120 — Voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt to extort confession, or to compel restoration of property