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IPC Section 158 - Being hired to take part in an unlawful assembly or riot
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Simple language explanation
IPC Section 158 deals with being hired to take part in an unlawful assembly or riot.
Full official legal text
158. Being hired to take part in an unlawful assembly or riot. Whoever is engaged, or hired, or
offers or attempts to be hired or engaged, to do or assist in doing any of the acts specified in section 141,
shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six mont hs, or
with fine, or with both,
or to go armed .--and whoever, being so engaged or hired as aforesaid, goes armed, or engages or
offers to go armed, with any deadly weapon or with anything which used as a weapon of offence is likely
to cause death, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to
two years, or with fine, or with both.
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