Section 320 of the Indian Penal Code
Section 320 in India defines grievous hurt. The punishment is enhanced when the hurt is grievous.
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The following kinds of hurt only are designated as "Grievous":[1]
- First
Emasculation
- Second
Permanent privation of the sight of either eye
- Third
Permanent privation of the hearing of either ear
- Fourth
Privation of any member or joint
- Fifth
Destruction or permanent impairing of the powers of any member or joint,
- Sixth
Permanent disfiguration of the head or face
- Seventh
Fracture or dislocation of a bone or tooth,
- Eighth
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.
Notes
- ^ Atal, DK; Naik, SK; Das, S (April–June 2013). "Hurt & Grievous Hurt in Indian Context" (PDF). J Indian Acad Forensic Med. 35 (2): 160–164. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
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Indian Penal Code
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- Chapter V
- Chapter VA
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- Chapter XX
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- 121 (waging war against India)
- 122 (mutiny)
- 194 (false evidence to procure conviction for a capital offence)
- 302, 303 (murder)
- 305 (abetting suicide)
- 364A (kidnapping for ransom)
- 364A (dacoity with murder)
- 376A (rape with murder or resulting in persistent vegetative state of the victim)
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- 20 (court of law)
- 124A (sedition)
- 144 (unlawful assembly)
- 153A (hate speech)
- 228A (privacy of rape victim)
- 294 (obscenity)
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- 299 (culpable homicide)
- 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder)
- 320 (grievous hurt)
- 326A (acid attack)
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- 377 (unnatural sex offences)
- 420 (fraud)