SECTION 97 IPC : Right to self-defense of the person and property. Subject to the limitations in section 99, every person has the right to defend
(first) his own body and the body of any other person against any offense affecting the human body; (secondly) the property of himself or of any other person, whether it be movable or immovable, against any act that constitutes a crime of theft, robbery, mischief, or criminal trespass, or that is an attempt to commit a crime of theft, robbery, mischief, or criminal