A person makes a threat to another person with the intent to cause fear and alarm, threatening to damage property. Under which section of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 is such criminal intimidation defined?

Section 503 of BNS, 2023 defines criminal intimidation. The section states: "Whoever threatens another with any injury to his 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 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." This provision directly addresses the scenario described.