Section 291: Criminal intimidation
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291. Criminal intimidation
Any person who threatens another, either by writing or verbally, with
making any disclosure or imputation which may cause any injury to his person, reputation or property, or to the person, or reputation of any one in
whom that person is interested, with intent to cause alarm to that person, or
to cause that person to do any act which he is not legally bound to do, or to
omit to do any act which that person is legally entitled to do, as the means
of avoiding the execution of such threat, shall be guilty of criminal intimidation, and shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years
and to a fine not exceeding 100,000 rupees.
[S. 291 amended by Act 29 of 1990; Act 5 of 1999; s. 8 of Act 36 of 2008 w.e.f.
6 December 2008.]
[Issue 2] C57 – 80
Revised Laws of Mauritius
292. – 295. —
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