Portal:1st House of Representatives of Siam

“ Whoever, for ransom, dares restrain or confine or dares carry away any particular person, whether by use of force, or by threat so as to create fear, or by a deceitful trick of any kind, shall, Lord says, held be guilty of an offence of abduction for ransom and be punished with imprisonment from fifteen years up to twenty years and a fine from a thousand baht up to five thousand baht. ”

“ Whoever assists in the commission of an offence of abduction for ransom in such a manner as said in section 65, whether before, during, or after the commission thereof, or obstructs the operations of an officer to seek out or arrest the offender, or acts as an intermediary offering a condition that the offender share the ransom with him as a reward, which is undue to him, or that the ransom giver furnish him with a reward, which is undue to him, shall, Lord says, be held guilty as a co-principal. ”

“ If, in committing such robbery, they cause another person to suffer injury by shooting him with a firearm, or assaulting him with an explosive, or subjecting him to torture or cruelty so as to have him undergo serious hardship, Lord says that they the gang robbers be punished with twenty years' imprisonment or life imprisonment. ”