Self-defence and the law: India

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When facing unlawful aggression

Respect law, but don’t be coward’

Dhananjay Mahapatra | TNN

From the archives of The Times of India 2007, 2009

New Delhi: At a time when terror threatens our way of life, the Supreme Court has taken a proactive view of ‘self-defence’, saying the law doesn’t require citizens to be cowards when facing unlawful aggression.

Calling running in the face of danger degrading to the human spirit, a three-judge SC Bench laid down a 10-point guideline on the right to selfdefence, under which a person cannot be accused of a crime even if he inflicts mortal wounds on the aggressor. P 9