Indian Penal Code
IPC 506 is now BNS 351(2) and 351(3).
Punishment for criminal intimidation · BNS 351 brings it together with IPC 503 and 507.
Merged
26% of the old wording kept
Old · IPC 1860 · Ch. XXII
s. 506
Punishment for criminal intimidation
Whoever commits 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 be to cause death or grievous hurt, etc.—and if the threat be to cause death or grievous hurt, or to cause the destruction of any property by fire, or to cause an offence punishable with death or 8[imprisonment for life], or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years, or to impute unchastity 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.
Text from the official India Code PDF
New · BNS 2023 · Ch. XIX
s. 351(2)of section 351
Criminal intimidation.
(2) Whoever commits 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.
Text from India Code