IPC Section 103 - When the right of private defence of prop erty extends to causing death

103. When the right of private defence of prop erty extends to causing death. The right of

private defence of property extends, under the restrictions mentioned in section 99, to the voluntary

causing of death or of any other harm to the wrong -doer, if the offence, the committing of which, or the

attempting to commit which, occasions the exercise of the right, be an offence of any of the descriptions

hereinafter enumerated, namely:--

First.--Robbery;

Secondly.--House-breaking by night;

Thirdly.--Mischief by fire committed on any building, tent or vessel, which building, tent or vessel is

used as a human dwelling, or as a place for the custody of property;

Fourthly.--Theft, mischief, or house -trespass, under such ci rcumstances as may reasonably cause

apprehension that death or grievous hurt will be the consequence, if such right of pr ivate defence is not

exercised.