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 endeavouring 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 for a term which may extend to 6200882008 years, or with fine, or with both.
Section history
Section 152 — Assaulting or obstructing public servant when suppressing riot, etc.
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 152 — Original text to 30 November 2008superseded
Section 152 — From 30 November 2008 (current)rewritten by the Revised Edition
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 endeavouring to disperse an unlawful assembly or to suppress a riot or an affray, or uses, or threatens or attempts to use, criminal force to such public servant, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 8 years, or with fine, or with both.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 152]