Indian Penal Code
IPC 331 is now BNS 120(2).
Voluntarily causing grievous hurt to extort confession, or to compel restoration of property · BNS 120 brings it together with IPC 330.
Merged
29% of the old wording kept
Old · IPC 1860 · Ch. XVI
s. 331
Voluntarily causing grievous hurt to extort confession, or to compel restoration of property
Whoever voluntarily causes grievous hurt for the purpose of extorting from the sufferer or from any person interested in the sufferer any confession or any information which may lead to the detection of an offence or misconduct, or for the purpose of constraining the sufferer or any person interested in the sufferer to restore or to cause the restoration of any property or valuable security, or to satisfy any claim or demand or to give information which may lead to the restoration of any property or valuable security, shall be punished with 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. 120(2)of section 120
Voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt to extort confession, or to compel restoration of property.
(2) Whoever voluntarily causes grievous hurt for any purpose referred to in sub-section (1), shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Text from India Code