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Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 334

Title: Voluntarily Causing Hurt on Provocation

State: Central

Year: 1860

Whoever voluntarily causes hurt on grave and sudden provocation, if he neither intends nor knows himself to be likely to cause hurt to any person other than the person who gave the provocation, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.

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Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 324

Title: Voluntarily Causing Hurt by Dangerous Weapons or Means

State: Central

Year: 1860

Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 334, voluntarily causes hurt by means of any instrument for shooting, stabbing or cutting, or any instrument which, used as weapon of offence, is likely to cause death, or by means of fire or any heated substance, or by means of any poison or any corrosive substance, or by means of any explosive substance or by means of any substance which it is deleterious 10 the human body to inhale, to swallow, or to receive into the blood, or by means of any animal, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.

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Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 330

Title: Voluntarily Causing Hurt to Extort Confession, or to Compel Restoration of Property

State: Central

Year: 1860

.....information which may lead to the restoration of any property or valuable security, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also he liable to fine. Illustrations (a) A, a police-officer, tortures Z in order to induce Z to confess that he committed a crime. A is guilty of an offence under this section. (b) A, a police-officer, tortures B to induce him to point out where certain stolen property is deposited. A is guilty of an offence under this section. (c) A, a revenue officer, tortures Z in order to compel him to pay certain arrears of revenue due from Z, A is guilty of an offence under this section. (d) A, a zamindar, tortures a raiyat in order to compel him to pay his rent. A is guilty of an offence under this section.

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Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 323

Title: Punishment for Voluntarily Causing Hurt

State: Central

Year: 1860

Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 334, voluntarily causes hurt, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.

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Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 327

Title: Voluntarily Causing Hurt to Extort Property, or to Constrain to an Illegal Act

State: Central

Year: 1860

Whoever voluntarily causes hurt, for the purpose of extorting from the sufferer, or from any person interested in the sufferer, any property or valuable security, or of constraining the sufferer or any person interested in such sufferer to do anything Which is illegal or which may facilitate the commission of an offence, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

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Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 332

Title: Voluntarily Causing Hurt to Deter Public Servant from His Duty

State: Central

Year: 1860

Whoever voluntarily causes hurt to any person being a public servant in the discharge of his duty as such public servant, or with intent to prevent or deter that person or any other public servant from discharging his duty as such public servant, or in consequence of anything done or attempted to be done by that person in the lawful discharge of his duty as such public servant, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.

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Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 394

Title: Voluntarily Causing Hurt in Committing Robbery

State: Central

Year: 1860

If any person, in committing or in attempting to commit robbery, voluntarily causes hurt, such person, and any other person jointly concerned in commiting or attempting to commit such robbery, shall be punished with1[imprisonment for life], or with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 26 of 1955, section 117 and Schedule, for "transportation for life" ( w.e.f. 1-1-1956).

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Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 322

Title: Voluntarily Causing Grievous Hurt

State: Central

Year: 1860

Whoever voluntarily causes hurt, if the hurt which he intends to cause or knows himself to be likely to cause is grievous hurt, and if the hurt which he causes is grievous hurt, is said "voluntarily to cause grievous hurt." Explanation.--A person is not said voluntarily to cause grievous hurt except when he both causes grievous hurt and intends or knows himself to be likely to cause grievous hurt. But he is said voluntarily to cause grievous hurt, if intending or knowing himself to be likely to cause grievous hurt of one kind, he actually causes grievous hurt of another kind. Illustration A, intending or knowing himself to be likely permanently to disfigure Z's face, gives Z a blow which does not permanently disfigure Z's face, but which cause Z to suffer severe bodily pain for the space of twenty days. A has voluntarily caused grievous hurt.

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Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 321

Title: Voluntarily Causing Hurt

State: Central

Year: 1860

Whoever does any act with the intention of thereby causing hurt to any person, or with the knowledge that he is likely thereby to cause hurt to any person, and does thereby cause hurt to any person, is said "voluntarily to cause hurt".

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Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 335

Title: Voluntarily Causing Grievous Hurt on Provocation

State: Central

Year: 1860

Whoever 1 [voluntarily] causes grievous hurt on grave and sudden provocation, if he neither intends nor knows himself to be likely to cause grievous hurt to any person other than the person who gave the provocation, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to four years, or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, or with both. _______________________ 1. Inserted by Act 8 of 1882, section 8.

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