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Threatening to defame a person and thereby dishonestly inducing her to sign and deliver blank papers is "extortion" under Section 308(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023…

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An accused head master of a school threatens a lady teacher to sign certain blank papers and if she does not do so, he would defame her, and thereby dishonestly induces her to sign and deliver the papers to him. The head master is guilty of :

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Threatening to defame a person and thereby dishonestly inducing her to sign and deliver blank papers is "extortion" under Section 308(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (formerly IPC s.383, and see Illustration (d) to Section 308(1) BNS), since it intentionally puts her in fear of injury and dishonestly induces her to deliver something signed that may be converted into a valuable security.

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