Section 24: Hostage taking, kidnapping, hijacking, etc.

(1) A person, who knowingly or intentionally—
(a) seizes, detains, or attempts to seize or detain a person, property, or facility in order to compel a third party to do or abstain from doing a lawful act,
(b) threatens to kill, injure or continue to detain a person in order to compel a third party to do or abstain from doing a lawful act, or
(c) gives an explicit or implicit condition for the release of the person held hostage, or the property or facility detained, commits an offence.
(2) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1), is liable on conviction—
(a) where death does not result from the act, to life imprisonment; or
(b) where death results from the act, to a death sentence.
(3) In this section—
(a) a “third party” means a State, an International Governmental Organisation, a natural or legal person or a group of persons; and
(b) the word “knowingly or intentionally” referred to in subsection (1) may be inferred from the objective factual circumstances of the case.