Section 4: Hostage-taking.

The SAARC Convention (Suppression of Terrorism) Act, 1993Central Act · Act 36 of 1993

(1) Whoever, by force or threat of force or by any other form of intimation, seizes or detains any person and threatens to kill or injure that person with intent to cause a Convention country to do or abstain from doing any act as the means of avoiding the execution of such threat, commits the offence of hostage-taking.

(2) Whoever commits the offence of hostage-taking shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Where this provision sits

Act	The SAARC Convention (Suppression of Terrorism) Act, 1993
Section	4
Marginal note	Hostage-taking.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

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