(1) No person shall cause
grievous hurt to any other person.
(2) Where any person does any act with the intention of
causing hurt to another person, which results in any of the following
consequences, that person is deemed to have committed the offence
of causing grievous hurt to that other person:
(a) Making blind by making privation of the sight of, or by
breaking, either eye,
(b) Privation of smelling power of the nose,
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(c) Privation of hearing power of either ear,
(d) Privation of speaking power of the tongue,
(e) Cutting of woman's breast,
(f) Emasculation of man and woman (making woman
infertile or man impotent),
(g) Privation of the backbone, …, hand, leg or joint of
such organ by breaking, fracturing, dislocating it,
(h) Any hurt which causes the sufferer to be unable to
perform his or her professional work.
(3) Where any act of hurt, though not causing grievous hurt
immediately, results subsequently in the consequence referred to in
sub-section (2), it shall be deemed to have caused grievous hurt.
(4) A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection
(1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term
not exceeding ten years and a fine not exceeding one hundred
thousand rupees.
(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (4),
in the case of so causing grievous hurt to either of the organs
performing the same function that it becomes dysfunctional, the
offender shall be liable to half the sentence specified in that subsection,
and where the wound caused by grievous hurt gets so healed
as to restore the organ, the offender shall be liable to a sentence of
imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not
exceeding thirty thousand rupees.
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