Chapter XXII: Criminal intimidation, insult and annoyance
Criminal intimidation – Whoever threatens another with any injury to his or her person, reputation or property, or to the person or reputation of any one in whom that person is interested, with intent to cause alarm to that person, or to cause that person to do any act which he or she is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do any act which that person is legally entitled to do, as the means of avoiding the execution of such threat, commits criminal intimidation.[114]
The penalty is imprisonment of up to two years, or with a fine, or with both. If the threat is to cause death or grievous hurt, or to cause the destruction of any property by fire, or to cause an offence punishable with death or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years or more, or impute unchastity to a woman, the punishment is imprisonment of up to seven years, or with a fine, or with both.[115]
Word or gesture intended to insult the modesty of a woman – Whoever, intending to insult the modesty of any woman, utters any word, makes any sound or gesture, or exhibits any object, intending that such word or sound shall be heard, or that such gesture or object shall be seen by such woman, or intrudes upon the privacy of such woman, shall be punished with imprisonment of up to one year, or with a fine, or with both.[116]
Misconduct in public by a drunken person – Whoever, in a state of intoxication, appears in any public place, or in any place which it is a trespass in him or her to enter, and there conducts himself or herself in such a manner as to cause annoyance to any person, shall be punished with imprisonment of up to ten days, or with a fine which may extend to S$10, or with both.[117]
