Under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, a member of a group or gang who, singly or jointly, commits…

Section 112(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS) defines petty organised crime as theft, snatching, cheating, unauthorised selling of tickets, unauthorised betting or gambling, selling of public examination question papers or any other similar criminal act committed by a member of a group or gang, singly or jointly. Section 112(2) punishes it with imprisonment of not less than one year, which may extend to seven years, and fine. The BNS has no separate category of thug (formerly ss.310–311 IPC).

Section 110 punishes attempt to commit culpable homicide, section 111 deals with organised crime by or on behalf of an organised crime syndicate, and section 113 with a terrorist act.