Voluntarily causing hurt on provocation
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Summary
If a person, on grave and sudden provocation, voluntarily causes hurt but only intended to hurt the person who provoked him and did not intend or expect to hurt others, the offence attracts a lighter penalty. It applies when the provocation is both serious and immediate. Punishment is limited to up to one month imprisonment, or a fine up to five hundred rupees, or both.
Example
Ravi is shouted at and insulted suddenly by a neighbour and, in the heat of the moment, strikes the neighbour causing hurt. He did not intend to harm anyone else. Under this rule Ravi may be punished with up to one month imprisonment, or a fine up to five hundred rupees, or both.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever voluntarily causes hurt on grave and sudden provocation, if he neither intends nor knows himself to be likely to cause hurt to any person other than the person who gave the provocation, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.
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