(1) Any Executive Magistrate or officer in charge of a police station or, in the absence of such officer in charge, any police officer, not below the rank of a sub-inspector, may command any unlawful assembly, or any assembly of five or more persons likely to cause a disturbance of the public peace, to disperse; and it shall thereupon be the duty of the members of such assembly to disperse accordingly.
(2) If, upon being so commanded, any such assembly does not
disperse, or if, without being so commanded, it conducts itself in such a manner
as to show a determination not to disperse, any Executive Magistrate or police
officer referred to in sub-section (1), may proceed to disperse such assembly by
force, and may require the assistance of any male person, not being an officer
or member of the armed forces and acting as such, for the purpose of dispersing
such assembly, and, if necessary, arresting and confining the persons who form
part of it, in order to disperse such assembly or that they may be punished
according to law.
Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC)
121 CrPC Power to reject sureties
122 CrPC Imprisonment in default of security
123 CrPC Power to release persons imprisoned for failing to give security
124 CrPC Security for unexpired period of bond
125 CrPC Order for maintenance of wives, children and parents
127 CrPC Alteration in allowance
128 CrPC Enforcement of order of maintenance