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IPC Section 152 - Assaulting or obstructing public serva nt when suppressing riot, etc
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Simple language explanation
IPC Section 152 deals with assaulting or obstructing public serva nt when suppressing riot, etc.
Full official legal text
152. Assaulting or obstructing public serva nt when suppressing riot, etc. Whoever assaults or
threatens to assault, or obstructs or attempts to obstruct, any public servant in the discharge of his duty as
such public servant, in endeavouring to disperse an unlawful assembly, or to suppress a riot or affray, or
uses, or threatens , or attempts to use criminal force to such public servant, shall be punished with
imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.
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