## IPC 153

### IPC 153 — Wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot-if rioting be committed-if not committed
- https://unisonlegal.in/statutes/ipc/153

> 153. Wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot-if rioting be committed-if not
committed.-Whoever malignantly, or wantonly, by doing anything which is illegal, gives provocation
to any person intending or knowing it to be likely that such provocation will cause the offence of rioting
to be committed, shall, if the offence of rioting be committed in consequence of such provocation, be
punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine,
or with both; and if the offence of rioting be not committed, with imprisonment of either description for a
term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both.