Grievous Hurt, Part-2
Channel: Dr.Priya Sepaha
Date: 2020-07-16

This video explains provisions of hurt and grievous hurt, from section 330-338 of the Indian Penal Code.
Notes are provided below.

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Notes:
Section 330- Voluntarily causing hurt to extort confession, or to compel restoration of the property.
Whoever voluntarily causes hurt for the purpose of extorting from the sufferer or from any person interested in the sufferer, any confession or any information which may lead to the detection of an offence or misconduct, or for the purpose of constraining the sufferer or any person inter­ested in the sufferer to restore or to cause the restoration of any property or valuable security or to satisfy any claim or demand, or to give information which may lead to the restoration of any property or valuable security, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for seven years, and shall also be 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.

Section 331-  Voluntarily causing grievous hurt to extort confession, or to compel restoration of the property.
Whoever voluntarily causes grievous hurt for the purpose of extorting from the sufferer or from any person interested in the sufferer any confession or any information which may lead to the detection of an offence or misconduct, or for the purpose of constraining the sufferer or any person interested in the sufferer to restore or to cause the restoration of any property or valuable security, or to satisfy any claim or demand or to give information which may lead to the restoration of any property or valuable security, shall be pun­ished with imprisonment for ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Section 332- Voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty.
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 for three years, or with fine, or with both.

 Section 333- Voluntarily causing grievous hurt to deter public servant from his duty
Whoever voluntarily causes grievous 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 for  ten years, and shall also be liable to fine

Section 334- Voluntarily causing hurt on provocation.
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 one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.

Section 335- Voluntarily causing grievous hurt on provocation.
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. 

Explanation.—The last two sections are subject to the same provisos as Explanation 1, section 300.

Section 336- Act endangering life or personal safety of others.
Whoever does any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life or the personal safety of others, shall be punished with impris­onment for three months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees, or with both.

Section 337- Causing hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others.
Whoever causes hurt to any person by doing any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life or the personal safety of others, shall be punished for six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.

Section 338- Causing grievous hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others.
Whoever causes grievous hurt to any person by doing any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life or the personal safety of others, shall be punished for two years, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.