Table of Contents-
(i) Introduction
(ii) Necessity
(iii) Ingredients of Necessity
(iv) Necessity and Homicide
(v) Necessity and Larceny
(vi) Right of Private Defence
(vii) Right of Private Defence of Property and Person
(viii) Scope of Private Defence
(ix) Defence of Body and Property of Others
(x) Aggressor cannot take the Right of Private Defence
(xi) Number of injuries not a safe criterion for determining aggressor.
(xii) Onus of proving Private Defence
(xiii) Mistake of Fact
(xiv) Coercion/Duress
Index of Authorities
(1) Constitution of India Article 361.
(2) IPC section 6.
(3) Hari Singh Gour, The Penal Law of India, Vol I, 11th edition (2000).
(4) Section 81 of Indian Penal Code ACT 45 of (1860).
(5) (1779) 21 St Tr 1046, 1223.
(6) Stephens Digest of Criminal Law, (9th edition, 1950) Aricle 316.
(7)Queen v. Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273.
(8) Bacon’s elements C.5 Hawk, PC73
(9)4 Black commentaries, p. 186
(10) Attorney-General of Ireland v. X, (1992) 1 IR;
(11) 26 Fed Cas 360
(12) Attorney-General of Ireland v. X, (1992) 1 IR
(13) (1884) 14 QBD 273
(14)Draft Penal Code, Note B ,pp. 111, 112, 113.
(15) Hale, PC 478.
(16) Indian Penal Code ACT 45 of (1860)
(17) Gour Hari Singh, Penal Law of India (11th edition, Vol-II, 2000)
(18) Russel on Crime ( 11th edition, by JWC Turner, (1958), Vol. 1, p 491
(19) Parichhat v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (1972) 4 SCC
(20) 1975 SCC(Cr) 454.
(21) (1884) 15 Cox CC 540.
(22) Ram Rattan v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (1977) SCC ( Cr) 85.
(23) AIR 2000 SC 1271: 2000 Cr LJ 778
(24) AIR 2000 SC 1271: 2000 Cr Lj 778.
(25) AIR 2005 SC 1983.
(26) 1973 Cr LJ 811.
(27)Gottipulla Venkatesh v. State of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1970 SC 1079.
(28) Halsbury’s Laws of England, 4th Edition Vol. 11, para 21, p. 23.
(29)1 Hale PC pp. 42, 43
(30)R v Levett 1639 Cro Cat...