Wrongful confinement criminalises and grades punishment including enhanced terms for concealment, writ disobedience and extortion and forcible extraction of information Wrongful confinement is defined as wrongfully restraining a person to prevent movement beyond circumscribing limits; the statute criminalises this conduct with graded punishments based on duration and prescribes enhanced penalties where detention continues despite a writ, is concealed, or is undertaken to extort, compel illegal acts, obtain information, extract confessions, or force restoration of property.