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Whoever commits dacoity, robbery, theft, or theft in a Definition building, vessel or vehicle or criminal misappropriation, if the of looting_ commission of such offence takes place,— (a) during a riot or any disturbance of the -public peace at or in the neighbourhood of the riot, or the place at which such disturbance of the public peace occurs, or (b) in any area in which a riot or disturbance of the public peace has occurred and before law and order has been completely restored in such area, or (c) in such circumstances that a person whose property is stolen or criminally misappropriated is not as a consequence of rioting or any other disturbance of the public peace, present or able to protect such property, is said to commit the offence of looting.