Section 349 – Force – A person is said to use force to another if he causes motion, change of motion, or cessation of motion to that other, or if he causes to any substance such motion, or change of motion, or cessation of motion as brings that substance into contact with any part of that other’s body, or with anything which that other is wearing or carrying, or with anything so situated that such contact affects that other’s sense of feeling…
Section 339 - Wrongful Restraint - Whoever voluntarily obstructs any person so as to prevent that person from proceeding in any direction in which that person has a right to proceed, is said wrongfully to restrain that person.
Ingredients of the Section
1. A person must
voluntarily obstruct another person.
2. Such
obstruction must be with a view to prevent the other person from proceeding in
any direction.
3. The other
person must have a right to proceed in the direction which is obstructed.
4. If the above
three conditions are fulfilled, there will be wrongful restraint.
