Multiple choice

Principle: Whoever threatens another person with any injury to his reputation, property or physically, or to the person or reputation of anyone 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 not legally entitled to, as the means of avoiding the execution of such threat, commits criminal intimidation.

Which of the following can be a case of “Criminal Intimidation”?

  1. A pays B enough money to desist him from giving testimony against him in a court of law.

  2. A forces B to admit his crime in a court of law, else he might release the video taped recording of his wrongdoing to all by calling a press conference.

  3. A, for the reason of inducing B to desist from prosecuting a civil suit, threatens to burn B’s house.

  4. A incites B, among others, to protest against the government’s recent hike in fuel prices, announced in the annual budget.
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Explanation

Option 1: No, since no injury to a person, reputation or property is liable to cause any alarm to the recipient of money, i.e. B by A.

Option 2: No; here, A threatens B to admit a crime or surrender before court of law, which in itself, is a very lawful act (as B was guilty of some crime).

Option 3: Yes, this is a clear instance of threatening to cause injury to one’s property to desist one from taking the course of law. Option 4: No, nowhere a threat has been used. Instead, incitement of passions has been done.

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