Section 35. Right of private defence of body and of property
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Act
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section number
35
Section reader
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
35. Right of private defence of body and of property.
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.
