Section 152. Assaulting or obstructing public servant when suppressing riot, etc.
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Act
Indian Penal Code, 1860
Section number
152
Section reader
Indian Penal Code, 1860
152. Assaulting or obstructing public servant when suppressing riot, etc.
Whoever 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.
