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Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Chapter VI: Of Offences against the State

Section 124: Assaulting President, Governor, etc., with intent to compel or restrain the exercise of any lawful power

The Indian Penal Code, 1860 was repealed and replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 from 1 July 2024. It still applies to offences and proceedings from before that date.

Now in the BNS section 151 (Assaulting President, Governor, etc., with intent to compel or restrain exercise of any lawful power)

Whoever, with the intention of inducing or compelling the [President] of India, or [Governor ***] of any [State], *** *** *** to exercise or refrain from exercising in any manner any of the lawful powers of such [President or [Governor ***]], assaults or wrongfully restrains, or attempts wrongfully to restrain, or overawes, by means of criminal force or the show of criminal force, or attempts so to overawe, such [President or [Governor ***]], shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Corresponding sections were matched by comparing the wording of both official texts, and for the IPC and BNS, also against a published correspondence table. Wording, punishments and structure often changed, so read both sections before relying on the match.

Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here.

Supreme Court judgments citing the section 124