Hurt
Section 114 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 deals with hurt. Whoever causes bodily pain, disease or infirmity to any person is said to cause hurt. The Act came into force on 01 Jul 2024.
Whoever causes bodily pain, disease or infirmity to any person is said to cause hurt.
Section 114, The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Act 45 of 2023).
Replaces a provision of the Indian Penal Code
IPC 319 Hurt Text carried over almost unchanged 100%
Measured by comparing the text of the two provisions, not taken from an official correspondence table — there is no machine-readable one. See both texts side by side before relying on it.
Both regimes are live. The repealed enactment still governs what happened while it was in force. We never redirect one to the other.
Related judgements & precedents
These are some judgments that construed this section, and hold precedence value. They hold authority on how to read, interpret and use this section.
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Ramesh Chandra Vaishya v. State of Uttar Pradesh
Decided under Indian Penal Code 319, which this section replaces. The court did not have this Act before it.
Court's Decision & Legal Precedent
IPC s.319 defines hurt as causing bodily pain, disease or infirmity; a s.323 prosecution cannot continue where FIR/charge-sheet omit nature of hurt and medical support, and investigation completed in a day without eye-witnesses beyond family. SC/ST Act 3(1)(x) also fails without public-view and caste-laced insult particulars.
On this section: BNS s.114 Hurt — near-identical successor to IPC s.319; Vaishya particularisation holding carries
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Badrinarayana Jaganathan vs The State of Karnataka
Decided under Indian Penal Code 319, which this section replaces. The court did not have this Act before it.
Court's Decision & Legal Precedent
Criminal proceedings initiated on allegations that fail to disclose prima facie ingredients of the offences charged, where the underlying dispute is fundamentally civil in nature (employment termination), and where procedural irregularities and discrepancies suggest deliberate misclassification of the matter to transform a civil dispute into criminal proceedings for purposes of coercion or settlement, constitute an abuse of legal process and travesty of justice warranting quashing of the chargesheet and proceedings under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. The essential ingredients of criminal offences must be strictly established: Section 323 requires voluntary act of causing actual hurt; Sections 504 and 509 require specific intentional insult with contextual details and intent to provoke or shock sense of decency; Section 506 requires threat with intent to cause alarm, not mere assertion of consequences of lawful termination. Mere allegations without substantiation of these ingredients do not justify continuation of criminal proceedings.
On this section: Definition of hurt - bodily pain, disease, or infirmity - examined to determine if voluntary act of causing hurt was established
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Questions about Section 114
What have the courts held on Section 114 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita?
Ramesh Chandra Vaishya v. State of Uttar Pradesh (19 May 2023) is the leading judgment on this section among those set out below, though it was decided under IPC 319, which this section replaced -- the court never mentioned this Act: BNS s.114 Hurt — near-identical successor to IPC s.319; Vaishya particularisation holding carries. Another 1 judgment on this section is set out below, all of them from the Supreme Court. They run from 2023 to 2025.
How do I find court cases under Section 114 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita?
In judgments and charge sheets this section is written several ways, and each form finds a different set of orders. These search the full text of every order eCourtsIndia holds, best matches first: BNS 114, section 114 BNS, section 114 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. People searching for it also type bns 114 and 115 and bns 114 2 in hindi. Each opens the full list of orders on eCourtsIndia, where it can be narrowed by court, year and outcome. 2 reported judgments on this section are set out on this page, beginning with Ramesh Chandra Vaishya v. State of Uttar Pradesh (19 May 2023).
What should I read with Section 114 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and has it changed?
It carries forward IPC 319 (Hurt), so the judgments decided under that provision are the case law on this one.
When did Section 114 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita come into force?
Section 114 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, cited as BNS 114, came into force on 01 Jul 2024, having been enacted on 25 Dec 2023. It is in force as at the date shown on this page.
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