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The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
Section 101-138
Section 105-A
Section 111
Section 120
Section 126
Section 129- Dispersal of assembly by use of civil force

Any Executive Magistrate or officer in charge of a police station or, in the absence of such officer in charge, any police officer, not below the rank of a sub-inspector, may, command any unlawful assembly or any assembly of five or more persons likely to cause a disturbance of the public peace, to disperse and it shall thereupon be the duty, of the members of such assembly to disperse accordingly.
If, upon being so commanded, any such assembly in does not disperse, or if, without being so commanded, it conducts itself in such a manner as to show a determination not to disperse, any Executive Magistrate or police officer referred to in sub-section (1), may proceed to disperse such assembly by force, and may require the assistance of any make person, not being an officer or member of the armed forces and acting as such, for the purpose of dispersing such assembly, and if necessary an. arresting and confining the persons who form part of it, in order to disperse such assembly or that they may be punished according to law.
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