IPC 104 — When such right to causing any harm other than death

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Statutory text

If the offence,  the committing  of which,  or the  attempting to  commit which occasions  the exercise  of the  right of  private  defence,  be theft, mischief,  or criminal trespass, not of any of the descriptions enumerated in  the last  preceding section, that right does not extend to the  voluntary causing  of death,  but does  extend, subject to the restrictions mentioned  in section 99, to the voluntary causing to the wrong-doer of any harm other than death.

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