Aggravated assault

Every person who commits an unlawful assault of any of the following kinds, namely– (a) assault upon a person acting as a judicial officer or as a peace officer; (b) assault upon a minister of religion acting in the execution of the duties of his office; (c) assault upon a person in any court of justice, or assault upon a person in order to prevent him from doing, or on account of his doing or having done, anything as a party, agent, counsel, or witness, in any (d) assault with a purpose to commit, or in committing or attempting to commit, any (e) assault with any deadly or dangerous instrument or means; (f) 48 (g) assault upon any person of such a nature that it cannot in the opinion of the court be adequately punished under section 44, shall be guilty of an aggravated assault and, on conviction thereof, be liable to imprisonment for three years, provided that a person convicted under this section in respect of an assault under paragraph (g) is liable to imprisonment for five years instead of three years.