Section 4
Hostage-taking.
The SAARC Convention (Suppression of Terrorism) Act, 1993
About this Act
An Act to give effect to the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Convention on Suppression of Terrorism and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(1) Whoever, by force or threat of force or by any other form of intimation,
seizes or detains any person and threatens to kill or injure that person with intent to cause a Convention
country to do or abstain from doing any act as the means of avoiding the execution of such threat,
commits the offence of hostage-taking.
(2) Whoever commits the offence of hostage-taking shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
(2) Whoever commits the offence of hostage-taking shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.