[Rev. 2012]
Penal Code
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the offender is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years; and in any other case the
offender is liable to imprisonment for three years.
(2) It is immaterial whether the person accused or threatened to be accused
has or has not committed the offence or act of which he is accused or threatened
to be accused.
301. Procuring execution of deeds, etc., by threats
Any person who, with intent to defraud, and by means of any unlawful violence
to, or restraint of, the person of another, or by means of any threat of violence or
restraint to be used to the person of another, or by means of accusing or threatening
to accuse any person of committing any felony or misdemeanour, or by offering
or making any solicitation or threat to any person as an inducement to commit or
permit the commission of any offence, compels or induces any person—
(a) to execute, make, accept, endorse, alter or destroy the whole or any
part of any valuable security; or
(b) to write any name or impress or affix any seal upon or to any paper or
parchment, in order that it may be afterwards made or converted into
or used or dealt with as a valuable security,
is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
302. Demanding property with menaces
Any person who, with intent to steal any valuable thing, demands it from any
person with menaces or force is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for
ten years.
[Act No. 3 of 1969, First Sch., Act No. 25 of 1971, s. 3, Act No.
1 of 1973, s. 3, Act No. 9 of 1976, s. 3, Act No. 5 of 2003, s. 53.]
CHAPTER XXIX – BURGLARY,
HOUSEBREAKING AND SIMILAR OFFENCES
303. Definition of breaking and entering
(1) A person who breaks any part, whether external or internal, of a building, or
opens by unlocking, pulling, pushing, lifting or any other means whatever any door,
window, shutter, cellar flap or other thing intended to close or cover an opening in
a building, or an opening giving passage from one part of a building to another, is
deemed to break the building.
(2) A person is deemed to enter a building as soon as any part of his body or
any part of any instrument used by him is within the building.
(3) A person who obtains entrance into a building by means of any threat or
artifice used for that purpose, or by collusion with any person in the building, or who
enters any aperture of the building left open for any purpose, but not intended to
be ordinarily used as a means of entrance, is deemed to have broken and entered
the building.
[Act No. 53 of 1952, Sch.]
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