Whoever is engaged or hired, or offers or attempts to be hired or engaged, to do or assist in doing any of the acts specified in section 141, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 2 years, or with fine, or with both; and whoever, being so engaged or hired as aforesaid, goes armed, or engages or offers to go armed, with any deadly weapon, or with anything which used as a weapon of offence is likely to cause death, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 5 years, or with fine, or with both.
Section history
Section 158 — Being hired to take part in an unlawful assembly or riot
As in force on 21 November 2010.
Timeline 4 versions
- 30 March 1987 Enacted
- 1 February 2008 Act 51 of 2007
- 30 November 2008 Revised edition
- 21 November 2010 You are here
- 17 August 2026 Latest
Illustration
The last section is subject to the same illustration as section 144.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 158]