Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
BNS 122 was IPC 334 and 335.
Voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt on provocation. · It brings 2 old provisions together.
Merged
Came from
Old wording kept in full
Old · IPC 1860 · Ch. XVI
s. 334
Voluntarily causing hurt on provocation
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 of either description for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.
Text from the official India Code PDF
New · BNS 2023 · Ch. VI
s. 122(1)of section 122
Voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt on provocation.
(1) 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 of either description for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, or with both.
Text from India Code