Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Chapter VIII: Of Offences against the Public Tranquillity
Section 147: Punishment for rioting
The Indian Penal Code, 1860 was repealed and replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 from 1 July 2024. It still applies to offences and proceedings from before that date.
Whoever is guilty of rioting, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
Corresponding sections were matched by comparing the wording of both official texts, and for the IPC and BNS, also against a published correspondence table. Wording, punishments and structure often changed, so read both sections before relying on the match.
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 147
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Zainul v. The State of Bihar
The High Court dismissed the appeal preferred by the appellants herein and thereby affirmed the judgment and order of conviction passed by the Trial Court in Sessions Case No. 124 of 1989 holding the appellants herein…
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Irfan v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.
Whether the High Court erred in granting bail to the Respondent No.2 holding that any further detention would be detrimental to his defence in the trial and inconsistent with the norms of fairness in criminal…
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State of Karnataka v. Sri Darshan Etc.
Whether the order of the High Court granting bail to the respondents-accused persons in a case involving serious charges u/ss.302, 120B, and 34 IPC is perverse and legally unsustainable, warranting cancellation of bail.
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Jamnalal v. State of Rajasthan and Another
In the instant appeal, the father of the prosecutrix challenges the order of the High Court. By the said order, the sentence imposed on respondent no.2 herein was suspended till the final disposal of the appeal. Whether…
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Ajwar v. Waseem and Another
Issue arose as regards the correctness of the impugned order passed by the High Court granting bail to respondent no.1-accused.
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Central Bureau of Investigation v. Sekh Jamir Hossain and Ors.
The respondents herein were granted bail by the High Court for the offences punishable u/ss.143, 144, 147, 148, 149, 427, 326, 376 r/w ss.511 and 34 of IPC, 1860.
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Agniraj & Ors. Etc. v. State Through Deputy Superintendent of Police Cb-Cid
Whether the High Court was justified in upholding the conviction of the appellants/accused no. 1 to 11 for offences punishable u/ss.302 and 307 r/w. s.149 of the Penal Code, 1860 and the other offences; whether, in the…
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Vinod Bihari Lal v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.
Issue arose whether the High Court was justified in rejecting the applications filed u/s.482 Cr.PC by appellant for quashing the proceedings arising out of FIR u/s.2 and 3 of U.P. Gangsters & Anti-Social Activities…
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Lal Mohd. & Anr. v. State of U.P. & Ors.
Whether the prosecution of the appellants under the UP Gangsters Act satisfies the statutory thresholds prescribed under the Act, when it is based entirely on a single FIR, in which the appellants were already arrested…
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Mohammed Asarudeen v. Union of India & Ors.
Whether the Special Court while dealing with an application under sub-section 2 of s.44 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 made in respect of a large number of witnesses, recorded the satifaction which is…
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K.P. Tamilmaran v. The State by Deputy Superintendent of Police
Whether the High Court was justified in upholding the conviction and sentence of A-15 under Sections 217, 218, Penal Code, 1860 and ss.3(2)(i), 4, SC/ST Act, 1989 and modifying the conviction and sentence of A-14, while…
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Directorate of Revenue Intelligence v. Raj Kumar Arora & Ors.
Issue arose whether an offence u/s.8(c) of the NDPS Act could be said to have been made out when an accused “deals with” psychotropic substances mentioned in the Schedule to the NDPS Act but not figuring in Schedule I…
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N. Eswaranathan v. State Represented by the Deputy Superintendent of Police
Misconduct committed by Advocates. The Advocates offered an absolute and unconditional apology. Whether the advocates are worthy of pardon.
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Dhirubhai Bhailalbhai Chauhan & Anr. v. State of Gujarat & Ors.
Whether the High Court was justified in reversing the judgment of acquittal passed by the Trial Court qua the appellants; whether in the facts of the case, mere presence of the appellants at the scene of crime, without…
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Jamin & Anr. v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.
(i) Whether the High Court was right in exercising its revisional jurisdiction for the purpose of setting aside the order of the Trial Court rejecting the second application preferred by the respondent no.2 u/s.319 of…
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Abdul Wahid & Anr. v. State of Rajasthan
Whether it is for the prosecution to connect the accused to the alleged crime by producing credible and legally admissible evidence to punish.
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Naushey Ali & Ors. v. State of U.P. & Anr.
Whether the present case is a fit case where proceedings could be quashed, particularly when Section 307, IPC inter alia was invoked and there was a settlement between the parties.
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Omi @ Omkar Rathore & Anr. v. The State of Madhya Pradesh & Anr.
Issue arose as regards summoning a person as accused for facing the trial, when the said person was named in the FIR but not chargesheeted.
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Gurmeet Kaur v. Devender Gupta & Another
Issue arose whether the appellant while discharging her duty as a public servant on the relevant date, there was any excess in the discharge of the said duty which did not require the first respondent to take a prior…
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Mafabhai Motibhai Sagar v. State of Gujarat & Ors.
The appellant was convicted for offences punishable under Section 302 read with sections 147 and 148 Penal Code, 1860 and sentenced to life imprisonment. His application for remission was considered expeditiously by the…
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Nitya Nand v. State of U.P. & Anr.
Whether the prosecution could prove the charges against the appellant under Sections 148 and 302/149 IPC beyond reasonable doubt. Whether the appellant was a part of the unlawful assembly and if he actually took part in…
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K. Ravi v. State of Tamil Nadu & Anr.
Matter pertains to the right of the accused to file a fresh application u/s.216 Cr.P.C. seeking his discharge after the charge is framed by the court, more particularly when his application seeking discharge u/s.227…
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Union of India and Others v. Shishu Pal @ Shiv Pal
Appellants, if justified in terminating the services of the respondent on the post of Constable (GD) in the CRPF after conducting a departmental inquiry against him on receiving information that he had deliberately…
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Shailendra Kumar Srivastava v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.
Ten persons were arrayed as accused and after investigation, a charge sheet was filed under Sections 147, 148, 149, 307, 302 IPC alleging indiscriminate shooting and/or conspiracy leading to death of two persons and…
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Vinod Jaswantray Vyas (Dead) Through Lrs v. The State of Gujarat
The instant appeal is directed against the judgment dated 13.02.2017 passed by the Division Bench of the High Court, whereby, the Division Bench partly accepted the appeal preferred by the appellant accused-A1 and…
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Dharmendra Kumar @ Dhamma v. State of Madhya Pradesh
High Court if justified in upholding conviction and sentence of the appellant under ss. 302/34 IPC; the contradictions or discrepancies and the absence of blood group classification or inconclusive FSL results on the…
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Ajwar v. Waseem and Another
High Court, if justified in exercising jurisdiction u/s. 439(1) Cr.P.C for granting regular bail in favour of the accused persons.
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Rajendra Bhagwanji Umraniya v. State of Gujarat
Respondents herein were convicted by the Sessions Court for offence punishable u/s. 325 IPC and were sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment of five years. However, the High Court reduced the sentence of five years…
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Jadunath Singh v. Arving Kumar & Ors. Etc.
Criminal appeal filed by appellant Jadunath Singh against the Allahabad High Court’s decision to grant bail to Arvind Kumar, Chandra Kumar @ Chandu, and Rishi Kumar, who were convicted for life imprisonment under the…
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Mukhtar Zaidi v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.
Whether CJM as also the High Court fell in error in taking cognizance u/s. 190(1)(b) Cr.P.C. inasmuch as the CJM had relied upon not only the Protest Petition which was supported by affidavit of the complainant but also…
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Anil Mishra v. State of U.P. & Ors.
Whether High Court was justified in setting aside the entire proceedings of the case against the accused on the basis of a Settlement Agreement where the complainant in the FIR was not made a party.
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Mallappa & Ors. v. State of Karnataka
The trial Court acquitted appellants-accused nos.3, 4 and 5 for the commission of murder of one ‘M’. However, the High Court reversed the order of acquittal and held the appellants guilty of the commission of murder.…
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Bilkis Yakub Rasool v. Union of India & Others
Writ petition filed u/Art. 32 by one of the victims challenging the order of State of Gujarat granting remission and early release of 11 convicts held guilty in Bilkis Bano matter, if maintainable; writ petitions filed…
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Afjal Ansari v. State of UP
What are the parameters to be considered for the suspension of conviction u/s. 389(1) CrPC; whether the appellant has made out a prima facie case for the suspension of conviction u/s. 389(1) CrPC; and whether conviction…
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Shashikant Sharma & Ors. v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr.
Whether the prima facie ingredients of the offence punishable u/s. 3(2)(v) of the SC/ST Act were made out against the appellants.
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Pavana Dibbur v. The Directorate of
Whether the offence u/s.120B, IPC included in Paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, can be treated as a scheduled offence even if the criminal conspiracy alleged is to commit an…
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Madan v. State of Uttar Pradesh
Six deaths were caused on account of brutal firing by the appellants and other accused persons. The trial court imposed sentence of capital punishment to the appellants (‘M’ and ‘S’) herein for the offence punishable…
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Parshuram v. State of M.P.
Whether the courts below were justified in convicting and sentencing the appellants for the offences punishable u/s. 302/149, s.326/149, s.324/149, s.323/149, s.147 and s.148 IPC.
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Birbal Nath v. The State of Rajasthan & Ors
Whether the High Court was justified in acquitting the accused for the major offences u/ss. 302 and 307 IPC, and convicting them only for the offences u/ss. 147, 148, 323, 324, 325/149 and reducing their sentences to…
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State of Haryana v. Dharamraj
In instant appeal, the State seeks cancellation of anticipatory bail granted to the sole respondent by the Single Judge of the High Court.
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Zunaid v. State of Up. & Ors.
CJM rejected the final report submitted by the investigating officer and accepted the Protest Petition as the Complaint Case, whether the course opted by the CJM was just, legal and proper in the facts and circumstances…
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Nagaraj Reddy v. State of Tamil Nadu
Concurrent conviction of the appellant-accused No.1 for offences punishable u/ss.302, 341 IPC primarily on the basis of evidence of PW-1, an interested witness, if justified. Evidence – Interested witness – Previous…
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