BNS Section 192 — Wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot-if rioting be committed; if not committed
Section 192 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot-if rioting be committed; if not committed”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
192. Wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot-if rioting be committed; if not committed.—Whoever malignantly, or wantonly by doing anything which is illegal, gives provocation to any person intending or knowing it to be likely that such provocation will cause the offence of rioting to be committed, shall, if the offence of rioting be committed in consequence of such provocation, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both; and if the offence of rioting be not committed, with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both. ¶
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