IPC · Chapter VIII · Of offences against the public tranquillity

IPC section 153AA in the BNS

IPC 153AANot carried over

IPC section 153AA, “Punishment for knowingly carrying arms in any procession or organising, or holding or taking part in any mass drill or mass training with arms”, was not carried into the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, which replaced the IPC on 1 July 2024.

What changed

Why there is no BNS section

Not carried into the BNS. The section punished carrying arms in a procession, or a mass drill with arms, in breach of an order under section 144A of the CrPC. The BNSS has no counterpart of section 144A either.

The official text

Old and new, side by side

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Section 153AA Punishment for knowingly carrying arms in any procession or organising, or holding or taking part in any mass drill or mass training with arms

Whoever knowingly carries arms in any procession or organizes or holds or takes part in any mass drill or mass training with arms in any public place in contravention of any public notice or order issued or made under section 144A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974) shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months and with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees.

Explanation.—“Arms” means articles of any description designed or adapted as weapons for offence or defence and includes firearms, sharp edged weapons, lathis, dandas and sticks.

The texts are India Code’s. The amendment markers and footnotes of the official print are left out, so the old section reads as it stood when it was repealed; State amendments are not shown. The PDFs linked below carry the full history.

Old law or new?

Which one applies to a case

The BNS repealed the IPC from 1 July 2024 (section 358(1)). The repeal does not reach back: under section 358(2), penalties and punishments incurred for offences committed against the IPC still stand, and proceedings for them may be started, continued and enforced as if the IPC had not been repealed. An act done before 1 July 2024 is therefore dealt with under the IPC section; an act done on or after that date, under the BNS.