LawgistThe Indian Penal Code
104When such right extends to causing any harm other than death
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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Of the Right of Private Defense
- 96 Things done in private defence
- 97 Right of private defence of the body and of property
- 98 Right of private defence against the act of a person of unsound mind. etc
- 99 Acts against which there is no right of private defence
- 100 When the right of private defence of the body extends to causing death
- 101 When such right extends to causing any harm other than death
- 102 Commencement and continuance of the right of private defence of the body
- 103 When the right of private defence of property extends to causing death
- 104 When such right extends to causing any harm other than death
- 105 Commencement and continuance of the right of private defence of property
- 106 Right of private defence against deadly assault when there is risk of harm to innocent person
