SECTION-147 Punishment of Rioting || Chapter VIII || IPC Lecture || INDIAN PENAL CODE 1860
Channel: Advocate Malik Muhammad Haseeb khokhar
Date: 2018-04-16

CH # VIII OF OFFENCES AGAINST THE PUBLIC TRANQUILLITY IPC 1860 and PPC 1860
SECTION 141. Unlawful assembly:
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, the Federal or any Provincial 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.
 
SECTION 142. Being member of unlawful assembly:
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 any unlawful assembly.
 
SECTION 143. Punishment:
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.
 
SECTION 144. Joining unlawful assembly armed with deadly weapon:
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.
 
145. Joining or continuing in unlawful assembly, knowing it has been commanded to disperse:
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.
The course deals with the provisions of the Indian Penal Code,1860 ( IPC) and Pakistan penal code 1860


Indian Penal Code (IPC):

Introduction
General Explanations
Punishments
General Exceptions
Abetment
Criminal Conspiracy
Offenses against the State
Offenses against the Public Tranquility
Offenses against Public Justice
Offenses relating to religion
Offenses relating to marriage
Offenses relating to the Army, Navy, and Air Force
Offenses against public health, safety, convenience, decency, and morality
Offenses affecting the human body
Offenses affecting life
Offenses affecting the human body
Offenses against property
Offenses relating to documents and property marksCriminal breach of contracts of service
Offenses relating to marriage, defamation, and injury to the reputation
Defamation
Criminal intimidation, insult, and annoyance
Attempts to commit offenses
Offenses against the state
Offenses relating to the Army, Navy, and Air Force
Offenses relating to property and documents
Offenses relating to elections