Section 211: Prohibition of kidnapping

1) No person shall kidnap, or cause to be kidnapped, another person.

2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), a person shall be considered to have committed kidnapping if he or she does any of the following acts:

(a) To take any person to or compel him or her to go to any place by using force or threats to use force or by practicing fraud, deception or intimidation or by showing or not showing arms or by misrepresenting or by administering narcotics or alcoholic substance to him or her or by seizing or controlling in any way a vehicle by which he or she is travelling or exercising control in any way over such vehicle, or

(b) To take by force any person to any place without his or her consent or any child or any person who is under shelter of any one due to his or her physical incapacity or any person of unsound mind due to mental illness without the consent of his or her father, mother or guardian or by way of misrepresentation.