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Extort

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force menace duress torture or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity to wrench away from to tear away to wring from to exact as to extort contributions from the vanquished to extort confessions of guilt to extort a promise to extort payment of a debt

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