(e) 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 116 - “Member of Unlawful Assembly Defined”: Whoever being aware of
facts which render any assembly unlawful, intentionally joins that
assembly or continues in it, is said to be a member of an unlawful
assembly.
Section 117 - “Being Member of Unlawful Assembly” Whoever is a member of an
unlawful assembly shall on conviction be punished with imprisonment for
a term not exceeding six months or with fine or with both.
Section 118 - “Being Member of Unlawful Assembly Armed with Deadly Weapon”:
Whoever being a member of an unlawful assembly, armed with any
deadly weapon or with any thing which if used as a weapon of offence is
likely to cause death, shall on conviction be punished with imprisonment
for a term not exceeding two years or with fine or with both.
Section 119 - “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 lawfully
commanded to disperse, shall on conviction be punished with
imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or with fine or with both.
NOTE – See Chapter 8 of the Criminal Procedure Act, 2003.
Section 120 - “Rioting Defined”: 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 commits the offence of
rioting.
Section 121 - “Rioting”: Whoever commits offence of rioting, shall on conviction be
punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or with
fine or with both.
Section 122 - “Rioting Armed with Deadly Weapon”: Whoever commits offence of
rioting being armed with a deadly weapon or with any thing which if used
as a weapon of offence is likely to cause death, shall on conviction be
punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or with
fine or with both.
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