Whoever hires or engages, or employs, or promotes, or connives at the hiring, engagement or employment of any person to join or become a member of any unlawful assembly, shall be punishable as a member of such unlawful assembly, and for any offence which may be committed by any such person as a member of such unlawful assembly in pursuance of such hiring, engagement or employment, in the same manner as if he had been a member of such unlawful assembly, or himself had committed such offence.
CHAPTER VIII OF OFFENCES AGAINST THE PUBLIC TRANQUILLITY
Section 150: Hiring, or conniving at hiring, of persons to join unlawful assembly
The Indian Penal Code, 1860 (repealed)
Repealed by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.
Now in the BNS
As given in the official comparison tables of the Bureau of Police Research and Development and the Allahabad High Court (the NCRB table has no row for it). Read both texts before relying on it.
| IPC 150 | BNS 189(6) |
Questions on this section
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1. X, who claims a field in Z's possession, hires six men to join an assembly whose common object is to take possession of the field by show of criminal force. X himself stays at home. The assembly goes to the field and, in prosecution of its common object, its members cause simple hurt to Z's labourers. Under Section 189(6) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, X is: