IPC Section 146 — Rioting

offences against the public tranquillity

Criminal

Summary

If an unlawful assembly, or any person in it, uses force or violence to achieve the group's shared goal, then every person in that assembly commits the crime of rioting. This means that even if you did not personally use force or violence, you can still be held responsible if you were part of the group when it happened.

Official Text

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.

Related Provisions

rioting / unlawful assembly

Related Judgments

  • LAKSHMAN SINGH vs STATE OF BIHAR (NOW JHARKHAND) — Supreme Court of India (2021)
  • HAZARA SINGH & ORS vs STATE OF PUNJAB — Supreme Court of India (1971)
  • THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH vs SUBHASH @ PAPPU — Supreme Court of India (2022)
  • VINUBHAI RANCHHODBHAI PATEL vs RAJIVBHAI DUDABHAI PATEL & OTHERS — Supreme Court of India (2018)
  • NITYA NAND vs STATE OF U.P. & ANR — Supreme Court of India (2024)
  • DEV KARAN @ LAMBU vs STATE OF HARYANA — Supreme Court of India (2019)

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