Section 18
Punishment For Exerting Illegal Pressures
Whoever, either a public
servant or any other person, compels any public servant or any other
person to commit any offence punishable urder this Act by exercise of
fear or threat of under, kidnapping, taking away of property, of causing
adverse impact on prestige or by exerting any other type of illegal pressure,
shall be liable to a punishment of imprisonment for a term from four to
eight years and a fine from one hundred thousand to five hundred thousand
rupees.