08/07/2019
Penal Code, 1860 (Act No. XLV of 1860).
Unlawful assembly
141. An assembly of five or more persons is designated an "unlawful assembly,"
if the common object of the persons composing that assembly is
First.To overawe by criminal force, or show of criminal force, Government or
Legislature, or any public servant in the exercise of the lawful power of such
public servant; or
Second.To resist the execution of any law, or of any legal process; or
Third. To commit any mischief or criminal trespass, or other offence; or
Fourth.By means of criminal force, or show of criminal force, to any person to
take or obtain possession of any property, or to deprive any person of the
enjoyment of a right of way, or of the use of water or other incorporeal right of
which he is in possession or enjoyment, or to enforce any right or supposed
right; or
Fifth.By means of criminal force, or show of criminal force, to compel any person
to do what he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do what he is legally
entitled to do.
Explanation.An assembly which was not unlawful when it assembled, may
subsequently become an unlawful assembly.
Being member of
unlawful assembly
142. Whoever, being aware of facts which render any assembly an unlawful
assembly, intentionally joins that assembly, or continues in it, is said to be a
member of an unlawful assembly.
Punishment
143. Whoever is a member of an unlawful assembly, shall be punished with
imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or
with fine, or with both.
assembly, armed with
deadly weapon
144. Whoever, being armed with any deadly weapon, or with anything which,
used as a weapon of offence, is likely to cause death, is a member of an
unlawful assembly, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a
term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
Joining unlawful
Joining or continuing
in unlawful assembly,
knowing it has been
commanding to
disperse
145. Whoever joins or continues in an unlawful assembly, knowing that such
unlawful assembly has�� been commanded in the manner prescribed by law to
disperse, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term
which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
Rioting
146. Whenever force or violence is used by an unlawful assembly, or by any
member thereof, in prosecution of the common object of such assembly, every
member of such assembly is guilty of the offence of rioting.
Punishment for
rioting
147. Whoever is guilty of rioting, shall be punished with imprisonment of either
description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
148. Whoever is guilty of rioting, being armed with a deadly weapon or with
anything which, used as a weapon of offence, is likely to cause death, shall be
punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to
three years, or with fine, or with both.
Rioting, armed with
deadly weapon
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