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Section 97 - Indian Penal Code, 1860
Indian Penal Code, 1860
97. Right of private defense of the body and of property
Every person has a right, subject to the restrictions contained in section 99, to defend-
First- His own body, and the body of any other person, against any offence affecting the human body;
Secondly- 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.
Related Sections
- Section 222: Intentional omission to apprehend on the part of public servant bound to apprehend person under sentence or lawfully committed
- Section 138: Abetment of act of insubordination by soldier, sailor or airman
- Section 10: Man, Woman
- Section 261: Effacing, writing from substance bearing Government stamp, or removing from document a stamp used for it, with intent to cause loss to Government
- Section 316: Causing death of quick unborn child by act amounting to culpable homicide
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