Indian Penal Code, 1860
104. When
such right extends to causing any harm other than death
If the offence, the
committing of which, or the attempting to commit which, occasions the exercise
of the right of private defense, 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.