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(1)Any person who, with intent to extort or gain anything from any person
(a)accuses or threatens to accuse any person of committing any felony or misdemeanour, or of offering or making any solicitation or threat to any person as an inducement to commit or permit the commission of a felony or misdemeanour;
(b)threatens that any person shall be accused by any other person of any felony or misdemeanour, or of any such act; or
(c)knowing the contents of the writing, causes any person to receive any writing containing any such accusation or threat as aforesaid,
commits a felony, and if the accusation or threat of accusation is of—
(d)an offence for which the punishment of death or imprisonment for life may be inflicted;
(e)any of the offences defined in Chapter XIII of this Code, or an attempt to commit any of such offences;
(f)an assault with intent to have carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature, or an unlawful and indecent assault upon a male person; or
(g)a solicitation or threat offered or made to any person as an inducement to commit or permit the commission of any of the offences set out in this subsection,
the offender is liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term of fourteen years, and in any other case to imprisonment for a term of three years.
(2)It is immaterial whether the person accused or threatened to be accused has or has not committed the offence or act of which he or she is accused or threatened to be accused.
You cannot threaten to accuse someone of a crime to force them to give you money, property, or anything else. This is called attempted extortion by th...
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