Section 250 - Voluntarily causing hurt to extort property or to constrain to an illegal act.

(1) Whoever voluntarily causes hurt for the purpose of extorting from the person hurt or from a person interested in the person hurt any property or document of title or of constraining the person hurt or a person interested in the person hurt to do anything which is illegal or which may facilitate the commission of an offence, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years and shall also be liable to fine.