Section 119: (1) Whoever voluntarily causes hurt for the purpose of extorting from the sufferer, Voluntarily
or from any person interested in the sufferer, any property or valuable security, or of causing hurt or
grievous hurt
constraining the sufferer or any person interested in such sufferer to do anything which is to extort
illegal or which may facilitate the commission of an offence, shall be punished with property, or to
imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be constrain to an
liable to fine. illegal act.
(2) Whoever voluntarily causes grievous hurt for any purpose referred to in
sub-section (1), shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or imprisonment of either
description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.