Sunday, 4 May 2014

Pakistan Penal Code 1860 Section 335

335.  Itlaf-i-salahiyyat-i-udw.--Whoever destroys or permanently impairs the functioning, power or capacity of an organ of the body of another person, or causes permanent disfigurement is said to cause itlaf-i-salahiyyat-udw.

COMMENTARY

Scope. The offence covers:

(i)         Permanent impairing of the power of any member or joint.

(ii)        Privation of sight of either eye, hearing of either ear, or of any member or joint.

(iii)       Cutting of any lip.

(iv)       Uprooting of the hair of the head, eye, brows, eye laches or any other part of the body.

(v)        Deprivation of complete sight.

(vi)       Privation of complete hearing.

(vii)      Loss of sexual power.

(viii)      Cutting of nose-part or whole.

(ix)       Loss of tooth other than milk tooth.

(x)        Loss of milk tooth if amounts to permanent loss of tooth.

(xi)       Loss of one finger or thumb whether of hand or foot.

These fall within the ambit of grievous hurt.

 

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