Section 32 of The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita(BNS),2023

Section 32 of The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita(BNS),2023

32. Except murder, and offences against the State punishable with death, nothing is an

offence which is done by a person who is compelled to do it by threats, which, at the time of

doing it, reasonably cause the apprehension that instant death to that person will otherwise

be the consequence:

Provided the person doing the act did not of his own accord, or from a reasonable

apprehension of harm to himself short of instant death, place himself in the situation by

which he became subject to such constraint.

Explanation 1.—A person who, of his own accord, or by reason of a threat of being

beaten, joins a gang of dacoits, knowing their character, is not entitled to the benefit of this

exception, on the ground of his having been compelled by his associates to do anything that

is an offence by law.

Explanation 2.—A person seized by a gang of dacoits, and forced, by threat of instant

death, to do a thing which is an offence by law; for example, a smith compelled to take his

tools and to force the door of a house for the dacoits to enter and plunder it, is entitled to the

benefit of this exception.