Indian Penal Code, 1860

Section 124: Assaulting President, Governor, etc., with intent to compel or restrain the exercise of any lawful power

Repealed. Repealed from 1 July 2024. Use it for offences committed before repeal and other liabilities, investigations or proceedings preserved by BNS section 358; do not use it as the current general penal code.

Chapter VI — Of Offences Against the State

124. Whoever, with the intention of inducing or compelling the [President] of India, or Governor ***] of any State, *** *** *** to exercise or refrain from exercising in any manner any of the lawful powers of such President or [Governor 13*], assaults or wrongfully restrains, or attempts wrongfully to restrain, or overawes, by means of criminal force or the show of criminal force, or attempts so to overawe, such [President or *** Governor ***],

shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Source: official text of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.