Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29)

Section 90 - Definition of kidnapping

A person commits the criminal offence of kidnapping

(a) who unlawfully imprisons any other person, and takes that other person out of the jurisdiction of the Court, without the consent of the other person;

(b) who unlawfully imprisons any other person within the jurisdiction of the Court, in a manner that prevents the other person from applying to a Court for release or from discovering to any other person the place of the imprisonment, or in a manner that prevents a person entitled to have access from discovering the place where the other person is imprisoned.

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