BNS · Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section 93 — Exposure and abandonment of child under twelve years of age, by parent or person having care of it.
Replaces IPC Section 317.
Whoever being the father or mother of a child under the age of twelve years, or having the care of such child, shall expose or leave such child in any place with the intention of wholly abandoning such child, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both. Explanation.—This section is not intended to prevent the trial of the offender for murder or culpable homicide, as the case may be, if the child die in consequence of the exposure.
Nearby sections
- 90 Death caused by act done with intent to cause miscarriage.
- 91 Act done with intent to prevent child being born alive or to cause to die after birth.
- 92 Causing death of quick unborn child by act amounting to culpable homicide.
- 94 Concealment of birth by secret disposal of dead body.
- 95 Hiring, employing or engaging a child to commit an offence.
- 96 Procuration of child.
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