  This work explores the potential of elementary cellular automata to model the
dynamics of riot. Here, to model such dynamics, we introduce probabilistic loss
of information and delay perturbation in the updating scheme of automata to
capture sociological parameters - presence of anti-riot population and
organizational presence of communal forces in the rioting society respectively.
Moreover, delay has also been incorporated in the model to capture the
non-local interaction of neighbours. Finally, the model is verified by a recent
event of riot that occurred in Baduria of West Bengal, India.
