BNS Section 190 — Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object
Section 190 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
190. Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object.—If an offence is committed by any member of an unlawful assembly in prosecution of the common object of that assembly, or such as the members of that assembly knew to be likely to be committed in prosecution of that object, every person who, at the time of the committing of that offence, is a member of the same assembly, is guilty of that offence. ¶
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