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IPC Section 153 - Want only giving provoca tion with intent to cause riot
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Simple language explanation
IPC Section 153 deals with want only giving provoca tion with intent to cause riot.
Full official legal text
153. Want only giving provoca tion with intent to cause riot. if ri oting be committed; if not
committed.--Whoever malignantly, or wantonly by doing anything which is illegal, gives provocation to
any person intending or knowing it to be likely that such provocation will cause the offence of rioting to
be committed, shall, i f the offence of rioting be committed in consequence of such provocation, be
punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one ye ar, or with fine,
or with both; and if the offence of rioting be not committed, with imprison ment of either description for a
term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both.
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