Section 149.   Use of armed forces to disperse assembly.

(1) If any assembly referred to in sub-section (1) of section 148 cannot otherwise
be dispersed, and it is necessary for the public security that it should be dispersed, the
District Magistrate or any other Executive Magistrate authorised by him, who is present,
may cause it to be dispersed by the armed forces.
(2) Such Magistrate may require any officer in command of any group of persons
belonging to the armed forces to disperse the assembly with the help of the armed forces
under his command, and to arrest and confine such persons forming part of it as the
Executive Magistrate may direct, or as it may be necessary to arrest and confine in order to
disperse the assembly or to have them punished according to law.
(3) Every such officer of the armed forces shall obey such requisition in such manner
as he thinks fit, but in so doing he shall use as little force, and do as little injury to person
and property, as may be consistent with dispersing the assembly and arresting and detaining
such persons.