State vs Ranbir Singh Kharb And Others on 13 December, 2023
In Ramesh v State [AIR 1960 SC 154: 1960 Cr LJ 177],
the Supreme Court has held that the section 503 IPC consists of
two parts, the first part referring to the act of threatening another
with injury to his person, reputation or property or to the person or
reputation of anyone in which that person is interested, and the
second part referring to the intent with which the threatening is
carried out and it is also of two categories, one to cause alarm to
the person threatened and the second to cause that person to do any
act which he is not legally bound to do or to omit to do any act
which that person is legally entitled to do, as the means of
avoiding the execution of threat.