'A' threatens to publish a defamatory libel concerning 'B' unless 'B' gives him money. He induces 'B' to give him money. 'A' has committed
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extortion
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defamation
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criminal intimidation
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robbery
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Option (1) is correct: Whoever, intentionally puts any person in fear of any injury to that person, or to any other, and thereby dishonestly induces the person so put in fear to deliver to any person, any property or valuable security, or anything signed or sealed, which may be converted into a valuable security, commits 'extortion'.
Option (2) is incorrect: Whoever, by words either spoken or intended to be read, or by signs or by visible representations, makes or publishes any imputation concerning any person intending to harm, or knowing or having reason to believe that such imputation will harm, the reputation of such person, is said, except in the cases hereinafter expected, to defame that person.
Option (3) is incorrect: Whoever, threatens another with any injury to his person, reputation or property, or to the person or reputation of any one in whom that person is interested, with intent to cause alarm to that person, or to cause that person to do any act, which that person is legally entitled to do, as the means of avoiding the execution of such threat, commits 'criminal intimidation'.
Option (4) is incorrect: Robbery is when a person commits the extortion by putting that person in fear of instant death, of instant hurt, or of instant wrongful restraint to that person and by so putting in fear induces the person to deliver up the thing extorted.