(1) No person shall be engaged
in an unlawful assembly.
(2) An assembly of five or more persons with the objective
of doing any of the following acts shall be considered to be an
unlawful assembly:
(a) By means of force or show of force or show of a
deadly weapon:
(1) to prevent any public servant from
exercising the lawful functions or duties,
(2) to take or obtain possession of anyone’s
property,
(3) to deprive any person of the enjoyment of
the right of way, use of water, public
transport or communication or similar
other utilities,
(4) to compel any person to do what he or she
is not legally bound to do or to omit to do
what he or she is legally entitled to do.
(b) To hinder, resist the execution of any law, or of any
legal process,
(c) To commit any offence punishable by a sentence of
imprisonment.
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(3) Any person who, with the knowledge that it is an
unlawful assembly, joins the assembly shall be liable to a sentence of
imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months and a fine not
exceeding five thousand rupees where he or she has joined it without
arms, and imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year and a fine
not exceeding ten thousand rupees where he or she has joined it with
arms.
(4) Any person who himself or herself does not join an
unlawful assembly but hires or otherwise induces or overawes
another to join such assembly shall be liable to the sentence referred
to in sub-section (3) as if he or she himself or herself had joined such
unlawful assembly.