Indian Penal Code
IPC 348 is now BNS 127(8).
Wrongful confinement to extort confession, or compel restoration of property · BNS 127 brings it together with IPC 340, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346 and 347.
Merged
Old wording kept in full
Old · IPC 1860 · Ch. XVI
s. 348
Wrongful confinement to extort confession, or compel restoration of property
Whoever wrongfully confines any person for the purpose of extorting from the person confined or any person interested in the person confined any confession or any information which may lead to the detection of an offence or misconduct, or for the purpose of constraining the person confined or any person interested in the person confined 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 three years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Text from the official India Code PDF
New · BNS 2023 · Ch. VI
s. 127(8)of section 127
Wrongful confinement.
(8) Whoever wrongfully confines any person for the purpose of extorting from the person confined or any person interested in the person confined any confession or any information which may lead to the detection of an offence or misconduct, or for the purpose of constraining the person confined or any person interested in the person confined to restore or to cause the restoration of any property or valuablesecurity 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 three years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Text from India Code