Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 334, voluntarily causes hurt, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to $1,000,20082 years, or with fine which may extend to $5,000,2008 or with both.
Section history
Section 323 — Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 323 — Original text to 1 January 2020superseded
Section 323 — From 1 January 2020 (current)rewritten (not yet redlined) — Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
Whoever, except in the case provided for by section 323A or 334, voluntarily causes hurt, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 3 years, or with fine which may extend to $5,000, or with both.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 323]