BNS Section 119 — Voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal act
Section 119 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal act”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
119. 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. ¶
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