9.3 Hurt (Kutpit)

The Code's violence-against-the-body ladder (graded by consequence and means): Simple hurt — causing bodily pain, disease or infirmity (the slap, the bruise); Grievous hurt — the statutorily enumerated grave injuries: loss or diminution of sight, hearing, a limb or joint; permanent disfigurement; fractures; life-endangering hurt; long-lasting incapacity; Aggravations by means and victim — hurt by weapons, by torture, on children, the elderly, the disabled (the vulnerability gradings), acid and burn attacks (the era's special statutory cruelty — severe grading), hurt in committing other offences; The custodial and torture overlay — the torture prohibition (Constitution, Article 22; the Compensation Relating to Torture Act, 2053's tradition): the state official's hurt specially criminalized; The Ain lineage — the old kutpit-bhag with its compensation scales continuing into the Code's unified scheme.