According to the provisions of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the right of private defence of property extends to the voluntary causing of death or of any other harm to the wrong-doer in which of the offences committed or attempting to be committed?
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The BNS (like its predecessor IPC S.103) permits the extreme exercise of private defence of property — including causing death — only when faced with the most serious property offences: robbery, house-breaking after sunset (when vulnerability is highest), and aggravated forms of theft, mischief, or house-trespass. All three categories listed in the options qualify, making option (d) correct.
The text reads: The right of private defence of property extends to causing death in cases of robbery, house-breaking after sunset, and theft/mischief/house-trespass under circumstances that reasonably cause apprehension of death or grievous hurt.
BNS S.37 retains the same list of offences from IPC S.103 where private defence of property may extend to causing death.