Assaulting or obstructing public servant when suppressing riot, etc
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Summary
Assaulting, threatening, obstructing or attempting to obstruct a public servant while they are dispersing an unlawful assembly or suppressing a riot or affray is an offence. It also covers using or threatening criminal force against that public servant in those circumstances. Punishment is imprisonment for up to three years, or fine, or both.
Example
Rohan joins a small unlawful assembly outside a shop. When the police try to disperse the crowd, he shoves a constable and threatens to hit him. Because he assaulted and obstructed a public servant during the effort to disperse the assembly, he can face up to three years' imprisonment, or a fine, or both.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever assaults or threatens to assault, or obstructs or attempts to obstruct, any public servant in the discharge of his duty as such public servant, in endeavoring to disperse an unlawful assembly, or to suppress a riot or affray, or uses, or threatens, or attempts to use criminal force to such public servant, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.
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