Under the
MISCELLANEOUS OFFENCES (PUBLIC ORDER AND NUISANCE) ACTIntentional Harassment, Alarm or Distress13A. — (1) Any person who in a public place or in a private place,
with intent to cause harassment, alarm or distress to another person —
(a) uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour; or
(b) displays any writing, sign or
other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting,
thereby causing that person or any other person harassment, alarm or distress, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable
on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000.=====
Under the
PENAL CODE (CHAPTER 224)Chapter XVII: Offences Against PropertyExtortion.
383. Whoever intentionally puts any person
in fear of any injury to that person or to any other, and thereby dishonestly induces the person so put in fear to deliver to any person any property or valuable security, or anything signed or sealed which may be converted into a valuable security, commits “extortion”.
Punishment for extortion.
384. Whoever commits extortion shall be punished with
imprisonment for a term of not less than 2 years and not more than 7 years and with caning.Chapter XXII: Criminal Intimidation, Insult, AnnoyanceWord or gesture intended to insult the modesty of a woman.
509. 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 for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.=====
Moral-of-the-story: It's amazing what the law can do.