Indian Penal Code
IPC 158 is now BNS 189(8) and 189(9).
Being hired to take part in an unlawful assembly or riot · BNS 189 brings it together with IPC 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 150, 151 and 157.
Merged
43% of the old wording kept
Old · IPC 1860 · Ch. VIII
s. 158
Being hired to take part in an unlawful assembly or riot
Whoever is engaged, or hired, or offers or attempts to be hired or engaged, to do or assist in doing any of the acts specified in section 141, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both, or to go armed.—and whoever, being so engaged or hired as aforesaid, goes armed, or engages or offers to go armed, with any deadly weapon or with anything which used as a weapon of offence is likely to cause death, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
Text from the official India Code PDF
New · BNS 2023 · Ch. XI
s. 189(8)of section 189
Unlawful assembly.
(8) Whoever is engaged, or hired, or offers or attempts to be hired or engaged, to do or assist in doing any of the acts specified in sub-section (1), shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both.
Text from India Code