Section 2
Prohibition To Commit Some Public Crime
(1) No person shall commit any of the following acts:
(a) To hinder or obstruct any public servant from discharging his/her official duty by committing battery
or riot or by any other way;
(b) To break public peace by committing battery or riot in any public place;
(c) To break public peace or to make obscene show by using obscene speech, word or gesture in public place.
(c1) To print or publish any obscene materials by using obscene language or by any word or picture which
denotes obscene meaning; or to exhibit or sell or distribute such obscene publication in public place
other than the purpose of public health or health science;
(d) To cause undue hindrance in the regular operation of postal service, communication, transportation,
electricity supply or any other such essential social service;
(e) To trespass on any governmental or non-governmental office or anyone’s building or land by committing riot;
or to stay or remain there in without any authority;
⊕ (f) To damage any public or private property by committing riot or pelting stone or by any other way.
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Inserted by Some Nepal Acts (Amendment) Act, 2039.
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Inserted by Some Public (Crime and Punishment) (Second Amendment) Act, 2031.
(g) To insult women in public place by committing molestation (Hatapata);
⊕ (h) To make undue behaviour in public place.
⊕ (i) To hinder or obstruct anyone or to stop his/her pathway or passage in a condition when he/she is
staying anywhere or walking on the road or traveling by any vehicle; or to commit riot, molestation, battery,
nuisance or misconduct; or to capture or damage any property or vehicle of such person having with him/her
in the said condition with keeping intention to harass or cause trouble him/her;
⊕ (j) To threat or scold or tease or to commit any undue act or to express any undue thing to anyone through
telephone, letter or any other means or medium with keeping intention to intimidate, terrorize or cause
trouble or to insult or defame or harass to him/her;
(k) To commit any act or express anything, which causes intimidation or terror in general public and breaks
public peace, by entering or not entering in any public gathering, assembly or demonstration; or to show
weapon.
(a) To hinder or obstruct any public servant from discharging his/her official duty by committing battery
or riot or by any other way;
(b) To break public peace by committing battery or riot in any public place;
(c) To break public peace or to make obscene show by using obscene speech, word or gesture in public place.
(c1) To print or publish any obscene materials by using obscene language or by any word or picture which
denotes obscene meaning; or to exhibit or sell or distribute such obscene publication in public place
other than the purpose of public health or health science;
(d) To cause undue hindrance in the regular operation of postal service, communication, transportation,
electricity supply or any other such essential social service;
(e) To trespass on any governmental or non-governmental office or anyone’s building or land by committing riot;
or to stay or remain there in without any authority;
⊕ (f) To damage any public or private property by committing riot or pelting stone or by any other way.
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Inserted by Some Nepal Acts (Amendment) Act, 2039.
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Inserted by Some Public (Crime and Punishment) (Second Amendment) Act, 2031.
(g) To insult women in public place by committing molestation (Hatapata);
⊕ (h) To make undue behaviour in public place.
⊕ (i) To hinder or obstruct anyone or to stop his/her pathway or passage in a condition when he/she is
staying anywhere or walking on the road or traveling by any vehicle; or to commit riot, molestation, battery,
nuisance or misconduct; or to capture or damage any property or vehicle of such person having with him/her
in the said condition with keeping intention to harass or cause trouble him/her;
⊕ (j) To threat or scold or tease or to commit any undue act or to express any undue thing to anyone through
telephone, letter or any other means or medium with keeping intention to intimidate, terrorize or cause
trouble or to insult or defame or harass to him/her;
(k) To commit any act or express anything, which causes intimidation or terror in general public and breaks
public peace, by entering or not entering in any public gathering, assembly or demonstration; or to show
weapon.