Of Offencesaffectingthe Human Body
IPC Section 322 - Volu ntarily causing grievous hurt
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Simple language explanation
IPC Section 322 deals with volu ntarily causing grievous hurt.
Full official legal text
322. Volu ntarily 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 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 of 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 causes Z to suffer severe bodily pain for the space of twenty days. A has voluntarily caused grievous
hurt.
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