Legal Provisions of Section 158 of Indian Penal Code, 1860.
Being hired to take part in an unlawful assembly or riot:
This section deals with the liability of persons being hired to take part in an unlawful assembly or riot, and the punishment is comparatively severe if the person so hired goes armed, or engages or offers to go armed with deadly weapon etc.
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The section says that whoever is engaged, or hired or offers or attempts to be hired or engaged, to do or assist in doing any of the acts specified in any of the five clauses of section 141 of the Code, which defines unlawful assembly, shall be punished with simple or rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend up to six months, or with fine, or with both.
The section further says that whoever, being so engaged or hired as stated above, goes armed, or engages or offers to go armed, with any deadly weapon or with anything which used as a weapon of offence is likely to cause death, shall be punished with simple or rigorous imprisonment for a term extending up to two years, or with fine, or with both.
The offence under this section is cognizable, bailable and non-compoundable, and is triable by metropolitan magistrate or magistrate of the first or second class.