Grievous Hurt in the Indian Penal code, Part-1
Channel: Dr.Priya Sepaha
Date: 2020-07-02

This video is the first part of Grievous Hurt in the Indian Penal code, 1860. It includes section 220-229.
Notes are provided below.

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Notes:

Section 320- Grievous Hurt 
Grievous hurt is basically an aggravated form of a simple hurt. There are eight categories of grievous hurt:
1) Causing hurt by emasculation (castration of male sexual organs);
2) Permanent privation of one’s eyesight;
3) Permanent privation of one’s hearing;
4) Privation of one’s members or joints;
5) Destruction or permanent impairing of the powers of one’s members or joints;
6) Permanent disfiguration of one’s head or face;
7) Fracturing or dislocating one’s bones or teeth;
8) Causing any hurt which endangers one’s life or causes him to suffer severe bodily pain for 20 days or makes him unable to follow his ordinary pursuits.

• Section 321- Voluntarily causing hurt.
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”.
• Section 323- Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt.
Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 334, voluntarily causes hurt, shall be punished with imprisonment to one year, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.
•  Section 322 - "Voluntarily causing Grievous hurt"
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 grievous hurt, is said: "voluntarily to cause grievous hurt."
• Section 325- Punishment for voluntarily causing grievous hurt
If an offender intentionally and voluntarily causes grievous hurt, Section 325 punishes him with imprisonment up to 7 years and fine.
•  Section 324- Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means.
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 weapon of offence, is likely to cause death, or by means of fire or any heated substance,  poison or any corrosive substance, or any explosive substance or any substance which it is deleterious to the human body to in­hale, to swallow, or to receive into the blood, or by means of any animal, shall be punished with imprisonment to three years, or with fine, or with both.

•  Section 326- Voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means
Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 335, voluntarily causes grievous hurt by means of any instrument for shooting, stabbing or cutting,  a weapon of offence, is likely to cause death, or by means of fire or any heated substance, or poison or any corrosive substance, or any explosive substance, or any substance which it is deleterious to the human body to inhale, to swallow, or to re­ceive into the blood, or by means of any animal, shall be pun­ished with 1[imprisonment for life], or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
•  Section 327- Voluntarily causing hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal act.
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 ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
• Section 328- Causing hurt by means of poison, etc., with intent to commit an offence.
Whoever administers to or causes to be taken by any person any poison or any stupefying, intoxicating or unwholesome drug, or other things with the intent to cause hurt to such person, or with intent to commit or to facilitate the commission of an offence or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause hurt, shall be punished with ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
•  Section 329- Voluntarily causing grievous hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal act.
Whoever voluntarily causes grievous 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 that is illegal or which may facili­tate the commission of an offence, shall be punished with 1[imprisonment for life], or imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.