Indian Penal Code, 1860
152.
Assaulting or obstructing public servant when suppressing riot, etc.
Whoever assaults or
threatens to assault, or obstructs or attempts to obstruct, any public servant
in the discharge of his duty as such public servant, in endeavoring to disperse
an unlawful assembly, or to suppress a riot or affray, or uses, or threatens,
or attempts to use criminal force to such public servant, shall be punished
with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three
years, or with fine, or with both.