Extortion (Penal Code, Cap 224, Sec 383)
Whoever intentionally puts any person in fear of any
injury* to that person or to any other, and thereby
dishonestly induces the
person so put in fear to deliver to any person any property or
valuable security, or anything signed or sealed which may be
converted into a valuable security, commits extortion.
Illustrations
(a) ODEX threatens to publish a defamatory libel concerning
DOWNLOADER, unless DOWNLOADER gives him (ODEX) money. He thus
induces DOWNLOADER to give him money. ODEX has committed
"extortion".
*injury = injury to mind, body, reputation or property
