Volume 104, Issue 173
Royal Gazette
1 September 2530
Whoever, in order to fulfil the desire of another person, receives the girl or woman who has been procured, lured away, or led away according to paragraph 1, paragraph 2, or paragraph 3, or aids in the commission of the said offence, shall be punished as prescribed in paragraph 1, paragraph 2, or paragraph 3, as the case may be."
Section6.The stipulations of section 313 of the Penal Code, which have been amended by the Act Amending the Penal Code (No. 5), 2525 BE, shall be repealed and replaced by the following stipulations:
"Section313.Whoever, in order to obtain a ransom—
(1)takes away a child aged not over fifteen years;
(2)takes away a person aged above fifteen years by exercising a deceitful trick, threat, forcible violence, undue influence, or any other means of coercion; or
(3)restrains or confines any person;
shall be punished with imprisonment from fifteen years to twenty years and a fine from thirty thousand baht to forty thousand baht, or life imprisonment, or death.
If the commission of the offence under paragraph 1 causes the person taken away, restrained, or confined to undergo serious harm, or it is committed through torture or through cruelty or brutality to the degree that causes the victim to undergo physical or mental harm, the offender shall be punished with death or life imprisonment.
If the commission of such offence causes the person taken away, restrained, or confined to die, the offender shall be punished with death."
