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IPC Section 335 - Voluntarily causing grievous hurt on provocation
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Simple language explanation
IPC Section 335 deals with voluntarily causing grievous hurt on provocation.
Full official legal text
335. Voluntarily causing grievous hurt on provocation. Whoever 1[voluntarily] causes grievous
hurt on grave and sudden provocation, if he neither i ntends 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.
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