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Section 327 IPC — Voluntarily causing hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal to an act

Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Official PDF page 131

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327. Voluntarily causing hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal to an act.--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.

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