General Exceptions
IPC Section 104 - When such right extends to causing any harm other than death
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Simple language explanation
IPC Section 104 deals with when such right extends to causing any harm other than death.
Full official legal text
104. When such right extends to causing any harm other than death. If the offence, the
committing of wh ich, 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 enumerated in the last
preceding section, that right does not extend to the voluntary causing of death, but does extend, subject to
the restrictions mentioned in section 99, to the voluntary causing to the wrong -doer of any harm other
than death.
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