CHAPTER III (GENERAL EXCEPTIONS)

Previously Section 106 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) If in the exercise of the right of private defence against an assault which reasonably causes the apprehension of death, the defender be so situated that he cannot effectually exercise that right without risk of harm to an innocent person, his right of private defence extends […]

Previously Section 105 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) The right of private defence of property,––(a) commences when a reasonable apprehension of danger to the property commences;(b) against theft continues till the offender has effected his retreat with the property or either the assistance of the public authorities is obtained, or the property has been

Previously Section 104 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) 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 specified in section 41, that right does not extend to the voluntary

Previously Section 103 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) The right of private defence of property extends, under the restrictions specified in section 37, to the voluntary causing of death or of any other harm to the wrong-doer, if the offence, the committing of which, or the attempting to commit which, occasions the exercise of

Previously Section 102 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) The right of private defence of the body commences as soon as a reasonable apprehension of danger to the body arises from an attempt or threat to commit the offence though the offence may not have been committed; and it continues as long as such apprehension

Previously Section 101 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) If the offence be not of any of the descriptions specfied in section 38, the right of private defence of the body does not extend to the voluntary causing of death to the assailant, but does extend, under the restrictions specified in section 37, to the

Previously Section 100 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) The right of private defence of the body extends, under the restrictions specified in section 37, to the voluntary causing of death or of any other harm to the assailant, if the offence which occasions the exercise of the right be of any of the descriptions

Previously Section 99 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) (1) There is no right of private defence,––(a) against an act which does not reasonably cause the apprehension of death or of grievous hurt, if done, or attempted to be done, by a public servant acting in good faith under colour of his office, though that

Previously Section 98 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Changes: ‘Mental illness’ used for ‘Unsound mind’ When an act, which would otherwise be a certain offence, is not that offence, by reason of the youth, the want of maturity of understanding, the mental illness or the intoxication of the person doing that act, or by

Previously Section 97 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) 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