170Acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm or prevent apprehension

170 Acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm or prevent apprehension

[Section 170 Amended by No. 74 of 1975, s. 3 ]

(1)  Any person who, with intent to maim, disfigure, or disable any person, or to do any grievous bodily harm to any person, or to resist or prevent the lawful arrest or detention of any person –

(a) wounds or does any actual bodily harm to any person by any means whatever;

(b) strikes any person in any manner with any kind of offensive weapon;

(c) causes any explosive substance to explode;

(d) sends or delivers any explosive substance or other dangerous or noxious thing to any person;

(e) ignites any inflammable substance;

(f) causes any substance or thing referred to in the preceding paragraphs to be taken or received by any person;

(g) puts any corrosive fluid or any destructive, explosive, or inflammable substance in any place; or

(h) casts or throws at or upon any person, or applies to any person, any fluid or substance referred to in paragraph (g)  –

is guilty of a crime.

Charge:  Committing an unlawful act intended to cause bodily harm.

(2)  A person who, by actual violence or threats of immediate violence, causes any other person to do any act for the purpose of avoiding or escaping from such violence, whereby such other person suffers actual bodily harm, is deemed to have caused such bodily harm to such other person.