Section 192: Prohibition of causing grievous hurt

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,

(c) Privation of hearing power of either ear,

(d) Privation of speaking power of the tongue,

(e) Cutting of a 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 sub-section (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 sub-section, 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.