Section 205: Offering violence to officiating ministers of religion

Any person who‐
(1) by threats or force prevents or attempts to prevent any minister of religion from
lawfully officiating in any place of religious worship, or from performing his duty in the
lawful burial of the dead in any cemetery or other burial place; or
(2) by threats or force obstructs or attempts to obstruct, any minister of religion while
so officiating or performing his duty; or
(3) assaults, or, upon or under the pretence of executing any civil process, arrests any
minister of religion who is engaged in, or is, to the knowledge of the offender, about to
engage in, any of the offices or duties aforesaid, or who is, to the knowledge of the
offender, going to perform the same or returning from the performance thereof,
is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for two years.