If the offence, the
committing of which, 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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Section 104
When Such Right Extends to Causing Any Harm Other Than Death.
The Indian Penal Code, 1860