Section 244: Prohibition of robbery

1) No person shall commit, or cause to be committed, robbery.

2) A person shall be deemed to commit robbery if he or she:

(a) causes or attempts to cause to any person death or hurt or restraint or obstruction or fear or intimidation of instant death or of instant hurt, in order to the committing of theft or in committing the theft or in carrying away property obtained by the theft or to the escaping of arrest after the commission of the theft or commits theft carrying a deadly weapon,

(b) obtains any money or economic benefit through criminal extortion by putting any person in fear of instant death or of instant or of instant restraint,

(c) commits theft by waiting near or on the way, road, lonely place or forest or show of fear or intimidation, using or threatening to use a deadly weapon,

(d) commits theft in a group of three or more persons.

3) A person who commits the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to the following sentence:

(a)  A sentence of imprisonment for a term of seven to fourteen years and a fine of seventy thousand to one hundred forty thousand rupees, in the case of the offence referred to in clause (a) or (b) of sub-section (2),

(b)  A sentence of imprisonment for a term of five to ten years and a fine of fifty thousand to one hundred thousand rupees, in the case of the offence referred to in clause (c) or (d) of sub-section (2).