Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
BNS 195 was IPC 152.
Assaulting or obstructing public servant when suppressing riot, etc.
Carried over
83% of the old wording kept
Old · IPC 1860 · Ch. VIII
s. 152
Assaulting or obstructing public servant 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.
Text from the official India Code PDF
New · BNS 2023 · Ch. XI
s. 195
Assaulting or obstructing public servant when suppressing riot, etc.
(1) Whoever assaults or obstructs any public servant or uses criminal force on 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, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine which shall not be less than twenty-five thousand rupees, or with both.
(2) Whoever threatens to assault or attempts to obstruct any public servant or threatens or attempts to use criminal force to 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, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
Text from India Code