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(2) If the offender is armed with any dangerous or offensive weapon or instrument, or is in
company with any other person or if, at or immediately before or immediately after the time of
the assault, he uses personal violence to any person, he is liable to imprisonment for life but, in
any case, to a term of imprisonment for not less than fifteen years with corporal punishment.
288. Assault with intent to steal
Any person who assaults any other person with intent to steal anything is guilty of an offence
and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than five years nor more than fourteen years,
with corporal punishment.
289. Demanding property by written threats
Any person who, with intent to extort or gain anything from any person and knowing the
contents of the writing, causes any person to receive any writing demanding anything from any
person without reasonable or probable cause, and containing threats of injury or detriment of
any kind to be caused to any person, either by the offender or by any other person if the
demand is not complied with, is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen
years.
290. Attempts at extortion by threats
(1) Any person who, with intent to extort or gain anything from any person–
(a) accuses or threatens to accuse any person of committing an offence or of offering or
making any solicitation or threat to any person as an inducement to commit or permit
the commission of an offence;
(b) threatens that any person shall be accused by any other person of an offence, or of
any such similar act; or
(c) knowing the contents of the writing, causes any person to receive any writing
containing any accusation or threat referred to in this subsection,
is guilty of an offence and if the accusation or threat of accusation is of–
(i) an offence for which the punishment of death or imprisonment for life may be inflicted;
(ii) any of the offences defined in Chapter XV, or an attempt to commit any of those
offences;
(iii) an assault with intent to have sexual intercourse with any person against the order of
nature, or an unlawful and indecent assault upon a male person; or
(iv) a solicitation or threat offered or made to any person as an inducement to commit or
permit the commission of any of the offences referred to in subparagraph (i) to (iv) of
this subsection,