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, 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
subsequently become an unlawful assembly"
142 IPC Being member of unlawful assembly
144 IPC Joining unlawful assembly armed with deadly weapon
145 IPC Joining or continuing in unlawful assembly, knowing it has been commanded to disperse
147 IPC Punishment for rioting
148 IPC Rioting, armed with deadly weapon
150 IPC Hiring, or conniving at hiring, of persons to join unlawful assembly