Section 356: Serious assaults

Any person who‐
(1) assaults another with intent to commit a felony, or with intent to resist or prevent
the lawful arrest or detention of himself or of any other person; or
(2) assaults, resists, or wilfully obstructs a police officer while acting in the execution
of his duty, or any person acting in aid of a police officer while so acting; or
(3) unlawfully assaults, resists, or obstructs, any person engaged in the lawful
execution of any process against any property, or in making a lawful distress, while so
engaged; or
(4) assaults, resists, or obstructs any person engaged in such lawful execution of
process, or in making a lawful distress, with intent to rescue any property lawfully
taken under such process or distress; or
(5) assaults any person on account of any act done by him in the execution of any duty
imposed on him by law; or
(6) assaults any person in pursuance of any unlawful conspiracy respecting any
manufacture, trade, business, or occupation, or respecting any person or persons
concerned or employed in any manufacture, trade, business, or occupation, or the
wages of any such person or person,
is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for three years.
Chapter 30. Assaults on females: abduction