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Wk6eve commits dacoity, robbery, theft, or theft in a building, vessel or vehicle or criminal misappropriation, .it-:_the 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 lgwnd order · has been completely restored in such area, or (c) in circumstances such 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.