Legal Provisions of Section 321 of Indian Penal Code, 1860.
Voluntarily causing hurt:
This section defines the offence of voluntarily causing hurt. It states that whoever has the intention of causing hurt to any person and with that intention does any act, or whoever knows that by doing any act he is likely to cause hurt to any person and does by that act cause hurt to any person, is said ‘voluntarily to cause hurt’. In the absence of the requisite intention or knowledge, and circumstances as stated in this section, therefore, an act cannot be said to be voluntarily to cause hurt. An act which falls under this section is punishable under section 323 of the Code.
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