Section 193: Prohibition of causing disfigurement by use of acid or other chemical, biological or toxin substance

1) No person shall cause bodily pain to another person by administering acid or similar kind of other chemical, biological or toxin substance to, or throwing such substance on, that other person, or by burning, maiming, strolling the body with or applying to the body such substance or disfigure the face or any part of the body of that other person.

2) A person who commits the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable, according to the nature of the offence, to a sentence of imprisonment for a term of five to eight years and a fine of one hundred thousand to five hundred thousand rupees in the case of disfigurement of the face, and to a sentence of imprisonment for a term of three to five years and a fine of fifty thousand to three hundred thousand rupees in the case of disfigurement of any other organ of the body or bodily pain.

3) The amount of fine collected in accordance with sub-section (2) shall be paid in whole to the victim as compensation.