Question

Section ______ of the Indian Penal Code deals with punishment for unlawful assembly.
1. 159
2. 143
3. 166
4. 135

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : 143

The correct answer is 143.

• Section143 of the Indian Penal Code deals with punishment for unlawful assembly.

• Section 143: (Punishment)
  • Whoever is a member of an unlawful assembly, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both.
  • The offence under this section is cognizable, available, and non-compoundable, and it's triable by any magistrate.

• Section 159: (Affray)
  • ​When two or more persons, by fighting in a public place, disturb the public peace, they are said to “commit an affray”.
• Section 166: (Public servant disobeying the law, with intent to cause injury to any person)
  • Whoever, being a public servant, knowingly diso­beys any direction of the law as to the way in which he is to conduct himself as such public servant, intending to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will, by such disobedience, cause injury to any person, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
• Section 135:
  • Abetment of desertion of soldier, sailor, or airman.—Whoever abets the desertion of any officer, soldier, 1[sailor or airman], in the Army, 2[Navy or Air Force] of the 3[Government of India], shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.