Offences Against Property
(1) Intentionally putting someone in fear of injury (to them or another), thereby dishonestly inducing delivery of property/valuable security/convertible signed-or-sealed items, is "extortion" - including threats made via electronic message. (2)-(7) Punished with up to 7 years' imprisonment, fine, or both for the base offence; escalating to up to 10 years plus fine when death/grievous-hurt fear is used or when an accusation of a serious (death/life/10-year) offence is threatened.
This is a critical provision directly relevant to extortion-based scams - the official text explicitly includes an illustration of an electronic-message ransom threat ("Your child is in my possession... unless you send me one lakh rupees"), showing the law is explicitly designed to cover digital/SMS/messaging-based extortion, not just in-person threats.
This is directly relevant to "digital arrest" and fake-kidnapping extortion scams: the BNS's own official illustration is a scammer sending an electronic message falsely claiming to hold someone's child hostage and demanding money - exactly matching common WhatsApp/SMS-based extortion scam patterns, confirming this section directly applies to them.