INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860
BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023
95. Act causing slight harm
33. Act causing slight harm.
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INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860
95. Act causing slight harm.--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.
Of the Right of Private Defence
Repealed / historical reference India Code — IPC 1860
BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023
33. Act causing slight harm.—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.
Of right of private defence
Current law India Code — BNS 2023