Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means
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Summary
Causing hurt intentionally by using weapons or other dangerous means (guns, knives, fire, heated substances, poison, corrosives, explosives, toxic gases, or even animals) is an offence. It applies when the thing used is likely to cause death or serious injury or is harmful to inhale, swallow, or enter the blood. Punishment: up to three years' imprisonment, or fine, or both.
Example
Rohan gets into an argument with his neighbour and stabs him with a kitchen knife, causing hurt. Using a cutting instrument like a knife falls under this section, so Rohan can be punished with up to three years' imprisonment, or a fine, or both.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever, 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 heated 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 animal, 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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