Grievous hurt
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Summary
Certain serious injuries are classified as grievous: emasculation; permanent loss of sight of either eye; permanent loss of hearing of either ear; loss, destruction or permanent impairment of any limb or joint; permanent disfigurement of the head or face; fracture or dislocation of a bone or tooth; or any hurt that endangers life or causes severe pain or incapacity for twenty days. The label applies as soon as the hurt matches any one category. A hurt designated grievous is treated as a serious offence under the IPC and affects charging and punishment.
Example
Ravi, a shopkeeper, is hit during a scuffle and permanently loses sight in one eye. That injury counts as grievous, so the attacker can be charged with causing grievous hurt and the case will be treated as a serious offence.
Bare Act
Enacted textThe following kinds of hurt only are designated as “grievous”:
(1) Emasculation.
(2) Permanent privation of the sight of either eye.
(3) Permanent privation of the hearing of either ear.
(4) Privation of any member or joint.
(5) Destruction or permanent impairing of the powers of any member or joint.
(6) Permanent disfiguration of the head or face.
(7) Fracture or dislocation of a bone or tooth.
(8) Any hurt which endangers life or which causes the sufferer to be during the space of twenty days in severe bodily pain, or unable to follow his ordinary pursuits.
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