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Extortion (Section 383): Extortion is an offense under Sec-383 Indian Penal Code,Whoever intentionally puts any person in fear of any injury to that person so put in fear to deliver to any person any property or valuable security or anything signed or sealed which may be converted into a valuable security, commits extortion. Moveable or immoveable property may be taken under extortion. Eg: 1) A threatens to publish a libel against Z, unless Z gives money. Here A has induced Z to give him the money. Therefore A is guilty. 2) A keeps B's child in wrongful confinement, and, demands from B Rs. 25,000 A is guilty of extortion. Robbery (Section 390): Robbery is an offence under Sec-390 of IPC. In all the cases of Robbery there is either theft or extortion. 1) When theft is robbery: Theft is robbery if the offender in order to commit theft or to carry away the property so obtained by theft, voluntarily causes to any person death or hurt or wrongful restraint (or fear of death or instant h...

The word “Crime” is derived from a Greek word “Krimos”, which means a “Social Order” and it is applied to those acts which go against the social order and are worthy of serious condemnation. Any act which is forbidden by the criminal law without Just Cause or Excuse is called a Crime. An act or intent must content a crime. According to Blackstone, a crime is an act which is committed or omitted in the violation of a public law either by forbidding or commanding it.