Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita: Section 198 – Public servant disobeying law, with intent to cause injury to any person

Whoever, being a public servant, knowingly disobeys any direction of the law as to the way in which he is…

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Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita: Section 197 – Imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration

(1) Whoever, by words either spoken or written or by signs or by visible representations or through electronic communication or…

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Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita: Section 196 – Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony

(1) Whoever— (a) by words, either spoken or written, or by signs or by visible representations or through electronic communication…

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Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita: Section 195 – Assaulting or obstructing public servant when suppressing riot, etc.

(1) Whoever assaults or obstructs any public servant or uses criminal force on any public servant in the discharge of…

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Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita: Section 194 – Affray

(1) When two or more persons, by fighting in a public place, disturb the public peace, they are said to…

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Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita: Section 193 – Liability of owner, occupier, etc., of land on which an unlawful assembly or riot takes place

(1) Whenever any unlawful assembly or riot takes place, the owner or occupier of the land upon which such unlawful…

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Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita: Section 192 – Wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot – if rioting be committed; if not committed

Whoever malignantly, or wantonly by doing anything which is illegal, gives provocation to any person intending or knowing it to…

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Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita: Section 191 – Rioting

(1) Whenever force or violence is used by an unlawful assembly, or by any member thereof, in prosecution of the…

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Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita: Section 190 – Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object

If an offence is committed by any member of an unlawful assembly in prosecution of the common object of that…

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Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita: Section 189 – Unlawful assembly

(1) An assembly of five or more persons is designated an unlawful assembly, if the common object of the persons…

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