section 506 IPC

Section 506 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) lays out the punishment for the offense of criminal intimidation. According to Section 503 IPC, criminal intimidation means intentionally threatening someone with injury to their person, reputation or property, or to the person or reputation of anyone in whom they are interested, with intent to cause alarm to that person, or to cause that person to do any act which they are not legally bound to do, or to omit to do any act which that person is legally entitled to do.