X for the purpose of including B to desist from prosecuting a civil suit, threatens to burn Y’s house . X is guilty of:

Option A: Extortion

Option B: Abetment of an offence is a continuing offence

Option C: Threat of mischief

Option D: Criminal Intimidation

Correct Answer

Option: d

Explanation

Criminal intimidation.—Whoever threatens another with 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, commits criminal intimidation.

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