Likewise, the Penal Code criminalizes ‘criminal intimidation’. In criminal jurisprudence, intimidation means threatening a person 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 an intention to cause harm 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.48 The punishment for criminal intimidation is imprisonment for a term, which may extend to two years and/or fine.49 When the threat, constituting criminal intimidation, is of causing death or grievous hurt or of causing destruction of any property by fire or of causing an offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life or imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years or of imputing unchastity to a woman, the offence of criminal intimidation is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years and/ or fine.50 48 Section 503. Section 506, para. 1. 50 Ibid, para. 2. 49 34