VidhiSangh

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Section 149: Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object

Repealed. Repealed from 1 July 2024.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

149. If an offence is committed by any member of an unlawful assembly in prosecution of the common object of that assembly, or such as the members of that assembly knew to be likely to be committed in prosecution of that object, every person who, at the time of the committing of that offence, is a member of the same assembly, is guilty of that offence.

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