IPC Section 503 — Criminal intimidation

criminal intimidation, insult and annoyance

Criminal

Summary

A person commits criminal intimidation if they threaten someone with harm to their body, reputation, or property, or to the body or reputation of someone close to them. The threat must be made with the intention of causing that person alarm, or forcing them to do something they are not legally required to do, or to stop them from doing something they have a legal right to do, in order to avoid the threat being carried out.

Official Text

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.

Related Provisions

criminal intimidation

Related Judgments

  • GORIGE PENTAIAH v. STATE OF A.P. & ORS — Supreme Court of India (2008)
  • ROMESH CHANDRA ARORA v. THE STATE — Supreme Court of India (1960)
  • CASE DETAILS MOHAMMAD WAJID AND ANR v. STATE OF U.P. AND ORS — Supreme Court of India (2023)
  • SC (2024) Vol.6 p.86 — Supreme Court of India (2024)
  • SC (2025) Vol.1 p.1469 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
  • ... Petitioners / Accused vs 1. The State Represented — Madras High Court (2018)
  • S.C.R. 8 ABU SALEM ABDUL QAYOOM ANSARI v. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA & ANR — Supreme Court of India (2010)
  • MANIK TANEJA & ANR v. STATE OF KARNATAKA & 159 ANR — Supreme Court of India (2015)

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