As per Section 390 of Indian Penal
code
Theft is "robbery" if, in
order to the committing of the theft, or in committing
the theft, or in carving away or attempting to carry
away property obtained by the theft, the offender, for
that end, voluntarily cause or attempts to cause to
any person death or hurt or wrongful restraint, or fear
of instant death or of instant hurt, or of instant wrongful
restraint.
Extortion is "robbery" if the offender,
at the time of committing the extortion, is in the presence
of the person put in fear, and commits the extortion
by putting that person in fear of instant death, of
instant hurt, or of instant wrongful restraint to that
person or to some other person, and, by so putting in
fear, induces the person so put in fear then and there
to deliver up the thing extorted.
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