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Z attempts to kill A but is exempt because of the legal incapacity from unsoundness of mind specified…

Section 36 of the BNS provides that where an act is not an offence by reason of the youth, want of maturity, "unsoundness of mind" or intoxication of the doer, "every person…

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Z attempts to kill A but is exempt because of the legal incapacity from unsoundness of mind specified in BNS section 22. What does section 36 provide about A's private defence?

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Section 36 of the BNS provides that where an act is not an offence by reason of the youth, want of maturity, "unsoundness of mind" or intoxication of the doer, "every person has the same right of private defence against that act which he would have if the act were that offence". The ordinary limits in section 37 and the rules on duration of the right still apply.

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