VidhiSangh

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Section 335: Voluntarily causing grievous hurt on provocation

Repealed. Repealed from 1 July 2024. Use it for offences committed before repeal and other liabilities, investigations or proceedings preserved by BNS section 358; do not use it as the current general penal code.

Chapter XVI — Of Offences Affecting the Human Body

335. Whoever voluntarily] causes grievous hurt on grave and sudden provocation, if he neither intends nor knows himself to be likely to cause grievous 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 four years, or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, or with both.

Explanation.-The last two sections are subject to the same provisos as Exception 1, section 300.

Source: official text of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.