Explain Section 158 concerning being hired to take part in an unlawful assembly or riot.
Section 158 addresses the offense of being hired to take part in an unlawful assembly or riot. Whoever is engaged, hired, offers, or attempts to be hired or engaged to do or assist in doing any of the acts specified in section 141, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term that may extend to six months, or with a fine, or with both. Additionally, if the person, being so engaged or hired, goes armed or engages or offers to go armed with any deadly weapon or with anything used as a weapon of offense likely to cause death, the punishment may extend to imprisonment for a term that may extend to two years, or with a fine, or with both. [Chapter 8, Section 158]