Section 63: Prohibition of rioting

1) No person shall commit, or cause to be committed, the offence of rioting.

2) Where an unlawful assembly or a member thereof uses force or destroys, damages or causes loss to any public or private property in the course of achievement of the object of such assembly, every member of such assembly shall be considered to have committed the offence of rioting.

3) Every person who commits the offense referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and a fine not exceeding twenty thousand rupees if he or she is armed with a deadly weapon, and to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year and a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees if he or she is not armed with a deadly weapon.