IPC Section 324 — Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means

Summary

This section makes it a crime to voluntarily cause hurt to someone using a dangerous method or weapon. The dangerous methods include using a gun, knife, or cutting tool, any weapon likely to cause death, fire or a heated substance, poison or a corrosive substance, an explosive, a substance harmful to inhale, swallow, or get into the blood, or an animal. The punishment for this offence can be imprisonment for up to three years, a fine, or both.

Official Text

Whoever, 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.

Sections referred to

• IPC §334 — Voluntarily causing hurt on provocation

Related Judgments

• MANOJ & ANR. vs STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH — Supreme Court of India (2008)
• HAZARA SINGH vs RAJ KUMAR AND ORS — Supreme Court of India (2013)
• RAMESH KUMAR @BABLA vs STATE OF PUNJAB — Supreme Court of India (2016)
• RICHHPAL SINGH MEENA vs GHASI @ GHISA & ORS — Supreme Court of India (2014)

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BNS §118 — Voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means