(1) No person shall take another
person hostage.
(2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), a person shall be
considered to have committed hostage-taking if that person seizes or
detains another person without his or her consent or a child or a
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person of unsound mind without the consent of his or her father,
mother or guardian, by using force or threats to use force, or by
practicing fraud, deception, coercion or intimidation or by showing
or not showing arms or by misrepresenting or by administering
narcotics or alcoholic substance to him or her or by seizing or
controlling a vehicle or place where he or she is staying.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2),
placing, in good faith, an unsound person under the surveillance or
control of any one in the course of treatment or for any other
purpose, for the benefit of the concerned person, with the consent of
his or her father, mother or guardian shall not be deemed to
constitute hostage-taking.