Section 503 IPC defines 'criminal intimidation' as threatening another with:

1. Section 503 IPC: '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.' 2. The threat must be of INJURY (defined widely in Section 44 — any harm illegally caused to body, mind, reputation, or property). 3. The threat may be communicated by words, signs or conduct. 4. Punishment under Section 506 — up to 2 years; if threat is to cause death, grievous hurt, etc., up to 7 years. 5. Hence option B is correct. _Source: Indian Penal Code 1860 / Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 / Indian Evidence Act 1872 (Bare Acts, indiacode.nic.in) — IPC, Section 503_