CrPC 130BNSS 149

What changed

• In subsection (1), the words "any such assembly" are replaced by "any assembly referred to in sub-section (1) of section 148," and "Executive Magistrate of the highest rank" is replaced by "District Magistrate or any other Executive Magistrate authorised by him".
• In Subsection 2, "Magistrate" is replaced by "Executive Magistrate".

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Under Section 149 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (formerly Section 130 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973)...

Bare act text — BNSS 149

149. Use of armed forces to disperse assembly.—(1) If any assembly referred to in sub-section (1) of section 148 cannot otherwise be disp ersed, and it is necessary for the public security that it should be dispersed, the District Magistrate or any other Executive Magistrate authorised by him, who is present, may cause it to be dispersed by the armed forces. 60 (2) Such Magistrate may require a ny officer in command of any group of persons belonging to the armed forces to disperse the assembly with the help of the armed forces under his command, and to arrest and confine such persons forming part of it as the Executive Magistrate may direct, or as it may be necessary to arrest and confine in order to disperse the assembly or to have them punished according to law. (3) Every such officer of the armed forces shall obey such requisition in such manner as he thinks fit, but in so doing he shall use as little force, and do as little injury to person and property, as may be consistent with dispersing the assembly and arresting and detaining such persons.