BNS Section 32 - Act to which a person is compelled by threats

32. Act to which a person is compelled by threats.--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 that 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.