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IPC Section 146 - Rioting
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IPC Section 146 deals with rioting.
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146. Rioting. Whenever force or violence is used by an unlawful assembly, or by any member
thereof, in prosecution of the common object of such assembly, every member of such assembly is gu ilty
of the offence of rioting.
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