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Section 42 - The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
42. When 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 specified in section 41, that right does not extend to the voluntary causing of death, but does extend, subject to the restrictions specified in section 37, to the voluntary causing to the wrong-doer of any harm other than death.
Related Sections
- Section 159: Abetting mutiny, or attempting to seduce a soldier, sailor or airman from his duty
- Section 97: Kidnapping or abducting child under ten years of age with intent to steal from its person
- Section 289: Negligent conduct with respect to machinery
- Section 66: Punishment for causing death or resulting in persistent vegetative state of victim
- Section 102: Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended
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