This section covers rioting in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
Rioting
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 offense of rioting.
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.
Whoever is guilty of rioting, being armed with a deadly weapon or with anything which, used as a weapon of offense, 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.
What was the old IPC code for Section 191 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, rioting was covered in S. 146-148*.