The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 · Ch. VI — OF OFFENCES AFFECTING THE HUMAN BODY
Section 114 — Hurt
Whoever causes bodily pain, disease or infirmity to any person is said to cause hurt.
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The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 · Ch. VI — OF OFFENCES AFFECTING THE HUMAN BODY
Whoever causes bodily pain, disease or infirmity to any person is said to cause hurt.
IPC Section 319 → BNS Section 114 per the official NCRB Sankalan table.
This is the text of IPC Section 319, not of the section above. Read both before relying on either.
Whoever causes bodily pain, disease or infirmity to any person is said to cause hurt.
Source & version
Official text: Gazette of India via MHA (official) ↗
Official Gazette text: The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023), English PDF as hosted by Ministry of Home Affairs (mha.gov.in, file 250883_english_01042024.pdf; canonical mirror indiacode.nic.in bitstream a202345.pdf). Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -layout and @nexlex/ingest gazette-pdf parser on 2026-07-14. Automated parse; structural validation + spot verification of sections 1, 63, 103, 302, 358; full clause-level proofread pending.
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