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Chandravadia Jignesh (Rajkot)     28 January 2010

Self Protection

Sir,

      In our self protection what we can do, if any body will come and want to kill me than in my self protection what can i do in legal it provide any section that you can protect your self by the criminal person.



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Meenakshi (Lawyer)     28 January 2010

The term is self-Defence my Dear friend Jignesh...

A person cannot be expected to act in a cowardly manner when faced with an imminent threat to life and has got every right to kill the aggressor in self defence, the Supreme Court has held.

Such a killing is permissible under the law and cannot be equated with murder, a Bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Asok Kumar Ganguly said.

Interpreting Section 96-106 of the IPC, which justifies the killing of an assailant, the apex court said, the provision can be invoked where a person has a genuine apprehension that his adversary is going to attack him and reasonably believes that the attack will result in a grievous hurt.


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