BNS 35 — Right of private defence of body and of property.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

35. Every person has a right, subject to the restrictions contained in
section 37, to defend—
 (a) his own  body,  and  the  body  of  any  other  person,  against  any
offence affecting the human body;
(b) the property, whether movable or immovable, of himself or of any
other  person,  against  any act  which  is  an  offence  falling  under  the
definition of theft, robbery, mischief or criminal trespass, or which is
an attempt to commit theft, robbery, mischief or criminal trespass.
Right of private defence against act of a person of unsound mind,
etc.

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