(1)
Notwithstanding anything contained in Section 24, the right of
private defense is not available in the following circumstances or
against the following acts:
(a) Where there is time to have or likely to have recourse
to the protection of public authority immediately to
defend the body or property of any one against illegal
harm at the time of causing such harm,
(b) Where harm caused to the body or property of a person
was so caused by reason that the harm doer was
provoked by such person himself or herself,
(c) Where a public servant does an act in good faith in
pursuance of a judgment or order of a court,
(d) Where a public servant does an act in good faith in the
exercise of his or her official power,
(e) Where any act is done by a person in pursuance of a
direction given in good faith by a public servant in the
exercise of his or her official power.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1),
a person shall not be deprived of the right of private defense in the
following circumstances:
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(a) Where that person does not know or have a
reasonable reason to believe that the doer of the act
referred to in clause (c) of sub-section (1) is a public
servant and he or she is doing the act in pursuance of
the judgment or order of a court or the doer does not
disclose his or her identity or produce the authority
under which he or she acts even if so demanded,
(b) Where there is no reasonable reason to know or
believe that the doer of the act referred to in clause
(d) of sub-section (1) is a public servant,
(e) Where there is no reasonable reason to know or
believe that the doer of the act referred to in clause
(e) of sub-section (1) is doing such act by the
direction of a public servant or the doer does not
state that authority under which he or she acts or
does not produce the authority under which he or she
acts even if so demanded.
(3) While exercising the right of private defence under
Section 24 or this Section, more force than reasonably necessary for
such defence cannot be used.