IPC Section 149 is now BNS Section 190
- IPC 149 (Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in common object) → BNS 190 Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object
Verbatim · BNS 190190. Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object.— If an offence is committed by any member of an unlawful assembly in prosecution of the common object of that assembly, or such as the members of that assembly knew to be likely to be committed in prosecution of that object, every person who, at the time of the committing of that offence, is a member of the same assembly, is guilty of that offence.
Read the full BNS Section 190 →
Offences committed before 1 July 2024 are still charged and tried under the IPC; the BNS applies to offences on or after that date.
Old-to-new correspondence is indicative and not always one-to-one; read the new text itself.