VidhiSangh

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Section 146: Rioting

Repealed. Repealed from 1 July 2024.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 VIII — Of Offences Against the Public Tranquillity

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.

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