Indian Penal Code 1860
Section 340 :
Wrongful confinement:
(See section 127 of BNS 2023)
Whoever wrongfully restrains any person in such a manner as to prevent that person from proceedings beyond certain circumscribing limits, is said wrongfully to confine that person.
Illustrations :
(a) A causes Z to go within a walled space, and locks ZinZ is thus prevented from proceeding in any direction beyond the circumscribing line of wall. A wrongfully confines Z.
(b) A places men with firearms at the outlets of a building, and tells Z that they will fire at Z if Z attempts leave the building. A wrongfully confines Z.