Section: Pakistan Penal Codes ACT 1860
Question About: Criminal Intimidation Insult And Annoyance
(a) What is meant by criminal intimidation? Is it an offence? If so, what punishment is proved for this offence?
(b) State the provisions of Code with regard to insult offered to persons other than public servants.
Answer
Criminal Intimidation:
Whoever threatens another with any injury to his person reputation. or property, or to the person or reputation of anyone in whom that person is interested, with intent to cause harm to that person. or to cause that person to do any act which he is not legally entitled to do as the means of avoiding the execution of such threat, commits criminal intimidation’s.
Explanation:
A threats to injure the reputation of any deceased person in whom the person threatened is interested, is within this section.
Illustration
A for the purposes of inducting B to desist from prosecuting a civil suit, threatens to burn B’s house, A is guilty of criminal intimidation.
Criminal intimidation is closely analogous to extortion. In extortion the immediate purpose is obtaining money or money’s worth in criminal intimidation, the immediate purpose is to induce the person threatened to do or abstain from doing something which he was not legally hound to do or omit.
Ingredients: A person commits criminal intimidation if he threatened another with any injury.
(a) to his person, reputation or property, or
(b) to the person, or reputation of anyone in whom that person is interested.
2. with intent:
(a) to cause alarm to that person, or
(b) to cause that person to do any act which he is not legally hound to do, or omit to do any act which that person is legally entitled to do.
As the means of avoiding the e execution of such threat.
(c) to cause that person to omit to do any act which he is not legally bound to do as the means of avoiding the execution of such threat.
Punishment for criminal intimidation:
Whoever commences the offence of criminal intimidation shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years or with fine or with both.
If threat to be caused death for grievous hurt, etc.
And if the threat be to cause death or grievous hurt, or to cause the i ion of any property by fire, or to cause an offence punishable with, death or imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years, or to impute unchastely to a woman, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both.
S. 506 punishes for the offence of criminal intimidation tinder S. 503. In certain circumstances mentioned in the lie section the punishment is greater.
Answer :(b) Insult to persons other than public servants:
The Pakistan penal Code provides the following two provisions relating to insult offered to persons other than public servants:
(a) Intentional insult with intent to provoke a breach of the peace, or to cases the commission of any offence. Two years or fine or both (S. 504)
(b) Uttering any word, or making any Sound or gesture, or exhibiting any object, intending to insult the modesty of a woman or intruding upon the privacy, of a woman. (One year, or fine or both) (S .509)
Other Provisions:
Other provisions relating to insult are:
(i) injuring or defiling any place of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class. (S. 205)
(ii) insulting the religion or religious feelings of any class (S. 295-A); and
(iii) criminal trespass with intent to intimidate, insult or annoy a person in possession of property (S. 411),
besides intentional insult to a public servant sitting in judicial proceeding. (S. 228)