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Definition :

Extortion [fr. extorqueo, Lat., to wrest away], any oppression under colour of right, as the demanding of a more than legal fee by colour of office. See the Sheriffs Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 55), s. 29(2), (6).

The offense committed by a public official who illegally obtain property and or the color of office, esp. an official's collection of an unlawful fee, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 605.

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'. (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 383)