Section 25: Restriction on the exercise of right of private defense

1) Notwithstanding anything contained in Section 24, the right of private defense is not available in the following circumstances or against or restriction 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 a person does any act 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:

(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,

(c) 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.