Indian Penal Code 1860
Section 97 :
Right of private defense of the body and of property:
(See section 35 of BNS 2023)
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 for of any other person, against any act which is an offence falling under the definition of theft, robbery, mischief for criminal trespass, or which is an attempt to commit theft, robbery, mischief or criminal trespass.
