CHAPTER 27 CRIMINAL INTIMIDATION, INSULT, ANNOYANCE AND DRUNKENNESS Section 436 - “Criminal Intimidation Defined”: Whoever threatens another with any injury to himself or to any person in whom he is interested, with intent to cause him alarm or to cause him to do any act which he is not legally bound to do or to omit to do any act which he is legally entitled to do as the means of avoiding the execution of such threat, commits criminal intimidation. Explanation:- A threat to injure the reputation of any deceased person in whom the person threatened is interested is within this section. Illustration – (“A”), for the purpose of inducting (“B”) to desist from prosecuting a civil suit, threatens to burn (“B’s”) house. (“A”) is guilty of criminal intimidation. Section 437 - “Criminal Intimidation”: Whoever commits the offence of criminal intimidation shall on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or with fine or with both; and, if the threat be to cause death or grievous hurt or to cause the destruction of any property by fire or to cause an offence punishable with death or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years or to impute unchastity to a woman, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years or with fine or with both. Section 438 - “Criminal Intimidation by an Anonymous Communication”: Whoever commits the offence of criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication or having taken precaution to conceal the name or abode of the person from whom the threat comes, shall on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years in addition to the punishment provided for the offence by section 437. Section 439 - “Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace”: Whoever intentionally insults and thereby gives provocation to any person, intending or knowing it to be likely that such provocation will cause a breach of the peace or the commission of any other offence, commits an offence and shall on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or with fine or with both. 121