Section 213: Punishment for kidnapping or hostage-taking

A person who does, or causes to be done, any act referred to in Section 211 or 212 shall be liable to punishment a sentence of imprisonment for a term of seven to ten years and a fine of seventy-five thousand to one hundred thousand rupees if the person does, or causes to be done, such act with the intention of causing death, causing injury by subjecting to hurt, committing rape or unnatural sex, trafficking or enslaving, or subjecting to forced labor, engaging into prostitution, subjecting to torture, compelling to do or cause to be done any act, taking ransom or compelling to do any other act which constitutes any offence under the law in force, and to a sentence of imprisonment for a term of three to five years and a fine of thirty thousand to fifty thousand rupees if the person does, or causes to be done, such act for any other purpose.