The provisions of the Indian Penal Code such as Section 141 defines unlawful assembly as an assembly of five or more persons whose common object is to overawe the central or state government by use of criminal force, to resist the execution of any law or legal process, to commit criminal trespass, to obtain possession of any property or deprive a person of enjoyment of a right or to compel a person by criminal force to do something which is he is not legally bound to do or to omit to do what he is legally bound to do.
ಭಾರತೀಯ ದಂಡ ಸಂಹಿತೆಯ 141ನೇ ಸೆಕ್ಷನ್ ‘ಕಾನೂನುಬಾಹಿರವಾಗಿ ಸಭೆ ಸೇರುವುದನ್ನು’, ಕ್ರಿಮಿನಲ್ ಬಲದ ಶಕ್ತಿಯ ಮೂಲಕ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಅಥವಾ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸರಕಾರದ ಯಾವುದೇ ಕಾನೂನನ್ನು ಅನುಷ್ಠಾನಗೊಳಿಸದಂತೆ ತಡೆಯುವ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನವೆಂದು ವ್ಯಾಖ್ಯಾನಿಸುತ್ತದೆ.