Whoever voluntarily causes hurt on grave and sudden provocation, if he neither intends nor knows himself to be likely to cause hurt to any person other than the person who gave the provocation, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to $500,20083 months, or with fine which may extend to $2,500,2008 or with both.
Section history
Section 334 — Voluntarily causing hurt on provocation
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 334 — Original text to 1 January 2020superseded
Section 334 — From 1 January 2020 (current)rewritten (not yet redlined) — Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
Whoever voluntarily causes hurt on grave and sudden provocation, if he neither intends nor knows himself to be likely to cause hurt to any person other than the person who gave the provocation, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 6 months, or with fine which may extend to $2,500, or with both.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 334]