Under Section 351 of the BNS, 2023, criminal intimidation is defined. Which of the following constitutes criminal intimidation? 

Section 351 of the BNS, 2023 (corresponding to the former Section 503 of the IPC) defines criminal intimidation as threatening another with any injury to his person, reputation, or property, or to the person or reputation of anyone 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 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. A lawful threat (such as filing a civil suit) is not criminal intimidation because it involves a legally permissible action. A warning by a government officer in discharge of duties and commercial competition also do not constitute criminal intimidation. The key elements are: a threat of injury, directed at a person or someone in whom he is interested, with the specific intent to cause alarm or coerce.