The IPC 1860 was replaced by the BNS 2023 (in force 2024-07-01); no verified section mapping on file for Section 97 — confirm the corresponding provision (savings: Section 358, BNS 2023).
Every person has a right, subject to the restrictions contained in Section 99, to defend - First - His own body, and the body of any other person, against any offence affecting the human body; Secondly - The property, whether movable or immovable, of himself or of any other person, against any act which is an offence falling under the definition of theft, robbery, mischief or criminal trespass, or which is an attempt to commit theft, robbery, mischief for criminal trespass.