IPC Section 503 is now BNS Section 351(1)
- IPC 503 (Criminal intimidation) → BNS 351(1) Criminal intimidation
Verbatim · BNS 351(1)(1) Whoever threatens another by any means, 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.
Read the full BNS Section 351 →
Offences committed before 1 July 2024 are still charged and tried under the IPC; the BNS applies to offences on or after that date.
Old-to-new correspondence is indicative and not always one-to-one; read the new text itself.