If threat be to cause death or grievous hurt, etc.: And if the threat be to cause death or
grievous hurt, or to cause the destruction of any property by fire, or to cause an offence
punishable with death or imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment for a term which may
extend to seven years, or to impute unchastity to a woman, shall be punished with
imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or with
fine, or with both.
507. Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication: Whoever commits the
offence of criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication, or having taken
precaution to conceal the name or abode of the person from whom the threat comes, shall
be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two
years, in addition to the punishment provided for the offence by the last preceding section.
508. Act caused by inducing person to believe that he will be rendered an object of
Divine displeasure: Whoever voluntarily causes or attempts to cause any person to do
anything which that person is not legally bound to do or to omit to do anything which he is
legally entitled to do, by inducing or attempting to induce that person to believe that he or
any person in whom he is interested will become or will be rendered by some act of the
offender an object of Divine displeasure if he does not to the thing which it is the object of
the offender to cause him to do, or if he does the thing which it is object of the offender to
cause to him to omit shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term
which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
Illustrations
(a) A suits dhurna at Z's door with the intention of causing it to be believed that, by so
sitting, he renders 2 an object of divine displeasure, A has committed the offence defined
fn this section.
(b) A threatens Z that, unless Z performs a certain act, A wilt kill one of A's own children,
under such circumstances that the killing would be believed to render Z an object of Divine
displeasure. A has committed the offence defined in this section.
509. Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman: Whoever,
intending to insult the modesty of any woman, utters any word, makes any sound or
gesture, or exhibits any object, intending that such word or sound shall be heard, or that
such gesture or object shall be seen, by such woman, or intrudes upon the privacy of such
woman, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one
year, or with fine, or with both.
510. Misconduct in public by a drunken person: Whoever, in a, state of intoxication,
appears in any public place, or in any place which it is a trespass in him to enter, and
there conducts himself in such a manner as to cause annoyance to any person be
punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to twenty-four hours, or
with fine which may extend to ten rupees, or with both.