Section 396 - Criminal intimidation defined.

Whoever threatens another with an injury to his person, reputation or property or to the person reputation or property of anyone in whom that person is interested, with intent to cause alarm 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 an act which that person is legally entitled to do as the means of avoiding the execution of that threat, commits criminal intimidation.

Explanation

A threat to injure the reputation of any deceased person in whom the person threatened is interested is within this section.

Illustration

A, for the purpose of inducing B to desist from prosecuting a civil suit, threatens to burn B' s house. A is guilty of criminal intimidation.