Welcome to Self-Defence Training Academy (SDTA) What Is Self Defence? Self defence is a set of awareness, avoidance, assertiveness, verbal confrontation skills with safety strategies and physical techniques that enable someone to successfully be aware of and avoid, resist or survive violent attacks. In this section, we undertake a detailed comparative analysis of the self-defence laws in India and the United States. Right of Private Defense: The right to self-defense allows individuals to protect themselves or others from imminent harm or threat. Extent of Force: The section specifically allows for the use of deadly force in self-defense only under certain serious offenses, such as murder, rape, robbery, and dacoity. In India, the right to self-defense extends to life and property of one person or of any other person and this creates an exception to criminal liability. Penal provisions relating to self-defense Section 96 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) states that “nothing is an offence, which is done in the exercise of the right of private defense,” [ii] while Section 97 states that “every person has a right to defend his own body, and the body of any other person, against any offence affecting the ...
