IPC Section 141 - Unlawful assembly

141. Unlawful assembly. An assembly of five or more persons is designated an "unlawful

assembly", if the common object of the persons composing that assembly is--

First.--To overawe by criminal force , or show of criminal force, 12[the Central or any State

Government or Parliament or the Legislature of any State], or any public servant in the exercise of the

lawful power of such public servant; or

Second.--To resist the execution of any law, or of any legal process; or

Third.--To commit any mischief or criminal trespass, or other offence; or

Fourth.--By means of criminal force, or show of criminal force, to any person , to take or obtain

possession of any property, or to deprive any person of the enjoyment of a right of way, or of the use of

water or other incorporeal right of which he is in possession or enjoyment, or to enforce any right or

supposed right; or

Fifth.--By means of criminal force, or show of criminal force, to compel any person to do what he is

not legally bound to do, or to omit to do what he is legally entitled to do.

Explanation.-- An assembly which was not unlawful when it assembled, may subsequent ly become

an unlawful assembly.