CHAPTER XI OF OFFENCES AGAINST THE PUBLIC TRANQUILLITY

Section 191: Rioting

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

(1) 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.

(2) Whoever is guilty of rioting, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.

(3) Whoever is guilty of rioting, being armed with a deadly weapon or with anything which, used as a weapon of offence, is likely to cause death, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, or with fine, or with both.

Corresponding IPC provision

As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table

191 (1)

146. Rioting.

Questions on this section

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1. Under Section 191(3) BNS, whoever is guilty of rioting while armed with a deadly weapon, or with anything which, used as a weapon of offence, is likely to cause death, is punishable with imprisonment which may extend to

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