Section 11: Hostage taking.

(1) A person who knowingly-
(a) seizes, detains or attempts to seize or detain; or
(b) threatens to kill, injure or continue to detain another person in order to compel a third party to do, abstain from doing any act or gives an explicit or implicit condition for the release of the hostage, commits an offence under this Act and shall on conviction be liable to Imprisonment for a maximum term of 10 years.
(2) In this section, a "third party" means a State, an international governmental organization, a natural or legal person or a group of persons.