Indian Penal Code
IPC 329 is now BNS 119(2).
Voluntarily causing grievous hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal act · BNS 119 brings it together with IPC 327.
Merged
44% of the old wording kept
Old · IPC 1860 · Ch. XVI
s. 329
Voluntarily causing grievous hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal act
Whoever voluntarily causes grievous 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 that is illegal or which may facilitate the commission of an offence, shall be punished with 1[imprisonment for life], or imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Text from the official India Code PDF
New · BNS 2023 · Ch. VI
s. 119(2)of section 119
Voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal act.
(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.
Text from India Code