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IPC Section 324 - Voluntarily causing hurt b y dangerous weapons or mean s
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IPC Section 324 deals with voluntarily causing hurt b y dangerous weapons or mean s.
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324. Voluntarily causing hurt b y dangerous weapons or mean s. 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 a weapon of offence, is likely to cause death, or by means of fire
or any hea ted 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 to the human body to inhale, to
swallow, or to receive into the blood, or by means of any anima l, 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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