The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
CHAPTER III: GENERAL EXCEPTIONS
Of right of private defence
Section 35: Right of private defence of body and of property.
Bare Act
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.
