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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 123: Causing hurt by means of poison, etc., with intent to commit an offence
- Section 337: Forgery of record of Court or of public register, etc
- Section 210: Omission to Produce document or electronic record to public servant by person legally bound to produce it
- Section 56: Abetment of offence punishable with imprisonment
- Section 70: Gang rape
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