Whoever administers to, or causes to be taken by, any person any poison or any stupefying, intoxicating or unwholesome drug or other thing, with intent to cause hurt to such person, or with intent to commit or to facilitate the commission of an offence, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause hurt, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine .2008or to caning.2008
Section history
Section 328 — Causing hurt by means of poison, etc., with intent to commit an offence
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 328 — Original text to 1 January 2020superseded
Section 328 — From 1 January 2020 (current)rewritten (not yet redlined) — Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
Whoever administers to, or causes to be taken by, any person any poison or any stupefying or intoxicating substance, or any substance which is harmful to the human body to inhale, swallow or receive into the blood, with intent to cause hurt to such person, or with intent to commit or to facilitate the commission of an offence, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause hurt, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine or to caning.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 328]