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Section 37 BNS | BNS 37 37(1) BNS There is no right of private defence,— (a) against an act which does not reasonably cause the apprehension of death or of grievous hurt, if done, or attempted to be done, by a public servant acting in good faith under colour of his office, though that act, … Read more

Section 36 BNS | BNS 36 | BNS Section 36 When an act, which would otherwise be a certain offence, is not that offence, by reason of the youth, the want of maturity of understanding, the unsoundness of mind or the intoxication of the person doing that act, or by reason of any misconception on … Read more

Section 35 BNS | BNS 35 | BNS Section 35 Every person has a right, subject to the restrictions contained in section 37, to defend— (a) his own body, and the body of any other person, against any offence affecting the human body; (b) the property, whether movable or immovable, of himself or of any … Read more

Section 34 BNS Nothing is an offence which is done in the exercise of the right of private defence. Reference Link: New Criminal Laws (BNS), Ministry of Home Affairs

Section 33 BNS | BNS 33 Nothing is an offence by reason that it causes, or that it is intended to cause, or that it is known to be likely to cause, any harm, if that harm is so slight that no person of ordinary sense and temper would complain of such harm. Reference Link: … Read more

Section 32 BNS | BNS 32 | BNS Section 32 Except murder, and offences against the State punishable with death, nothing is an offence which is done by a person who is compelled to do it by threats, which, at the time of doing it, reasonably cause the apprehension that instant death to that person … Read more

Section 31 BNS | BNS 31 | BNS Section 31 No communication made in good faith is an offence by reason of any harm to the person to whom it is made, if it is made for the benefit of that person. Illustration A, a surgeon, in good faith, communicates to a patient his opinion … Read more

Section 30 BNS | BNS 30 Nothing is an offence by reason of any harm which it may cause to a person for whose benefit it is done in good faith, even without that person’s consent, if the circumstances are such that it is impossible for that person to signify consent, or if that person … Read more

Section 29 BNS | BNS 29 | BNS Section 29 The exceptions in sections 25, 26 and 27 do not extend to acts which are offences independently of any harm which they may cause, or be intended to cause, or be known to be likely to cause, to the person giving the consent, or on … Read more

Section 28 BNS | BNS 28 | BNS Section 28 A consent is not such a consent as is intended by any section of this Sanhita,— (a) if the consent is given by a person under fear of injury, or under a misconception of fact, and if the person doing the act knows, or has … Read more