Voluntary causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means attracts life imprisonment or substantial term and a fine. Section 118 criminalises intentional hurt and grievous hurt caused by listed dangerous instruments or means - including firearms, stabbing or cutting instruments, weapons likely to cause death, fire or heated substances, poisons, corrosives, explosives, inhalable or ingestible deleterious substances, and animals - with hurt punishable by a term of imprisonment or fine or both, and grievous hurt attracting life imprisonment or a substantial fixed-term imprisonment plus fine, subject to statutory exceptions.