Section 327.

Voluntarily causing hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal

act:

Whoever voluntarily causes hurt, for the purpose of extorting from the sufferer, or from
any person interested in the sufferer, any property or valuable security, or of constraining
the sufferer or any person interested in such sufferer to do anything which is illegal or
which may facilitate the commission of an offence, shall be punished with imprisonment
of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to
fine.

Section 319. Hurt:

Whoever causes bodily pain, disease or infirmity to any person is said to cause hurt.

Sr. Ingredients of the offence / Facts to be The facts of the case

No. Proved
1 The Person accused had caused hurt,
resulting in either

bodily pain,
or
disease
or
infirmity

to the victim;
And

2 The accused person had inflicted hurt for

the purpose of extorting / forcefully
obtaining any property or valuable security
, from the victim or from any person on
whom the victim is interested;

or

The accused person had inflicted hurt for

the purpose of constraining the victim or
any person interested in such victim to do
anything which is illegal or which may
facilitate the commission of an offence,
The offence is Cognizable and Non Bailable, and triable by Magistrate of the First Class;
and therefore FIR or Application u/s 156(3) or Private complaint u/s 200 of CrPC, 1973,
may be preferred.

Maintenance of peace and order is essential in any society for humans to live peacefully
and without fear of injury to lives, limbs and property.

The chief concern of a criminal law is to protect and preserve certain fundamental social
values and institutions, and for this, it prescribes a set of norms of human behaviour and
forbids certain conducts; and prescribes punishments for the disregards of such norms and
conducts.