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NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
is not released on bail or in special homes or place
presumed that such abandonment is not wilful
under sub-section (1), shall be punishable with
of safety or fit facility or with a fit person, if placed
and the penal provisions of this section shall not
the same punishment as provided for in sub-
there by the order of the Board. (3) The children
apply in such cases: Provided further that if such
section (1) and such person shall be considered
in need of care and protection who are not placed
offence is committed by any person employed by
to be unfit under sub-clause (v) of clause (14) of
in families for any reason may be placed in an
or managing an organisation, which is entrusted
section 2: Provided that the said child, shall not
institution registered for such children under
with the care and protection of the child, he shall
be considered a child in conflict with law under
this Act or with a fit person or a fit facility, on a
be punished with rigorous imprisonment which
any circumstances, and shall be removed from the
temporary or long-term basis, and the process
may extend up to five years, and fine which may
charge or control of such guardian or custodian and
of rehabilitation and social integration shall be
extend up to five lakhs rupees: Provided also that
produced before the Committee for appropriate
undertaken wherever the child is so placed. (4)
on account of the aforesaid cruelty, if the child
rehabilitation.
The Children in need of care and protection who
is physically incapacitated or develops a mental
are leaving institutional care or children in conflict
illness or is rendered mentally unfit to perform
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with law leaving special homes or place of safety on
regular tasks or has risk to life or limb, such person
Whoever gives, or causes to be given, to any child
attaining eighteen years of age, may be provided
shall be punishable with rigorous imprisonment,
any intoxicating liquor or any narcotic drug or
financial support as specified in section 46, to help
not less than three years but which may be
tobacco products or psychotropic substance,
them to re-integrate into the mainstream of the
extended up to ten years and shall also be liable to
except on the order of a duly qualified medical
society.
fine of five lakhs rupees.
practitioner, shall be punishable with rigorous
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Section 77 of JJ Act, 2015
imprisonment for a term which may extend to
seven years and shall also be liable to a fine which
. Whoever, having the actual charge of, or control
(1) Whoever employs or uses any child for the
over, a child, assaults, abandons, abuses, exposes
purpose of begging or causes any child to beg
or wilfully neglects the child or causes or procures
shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term
the child to be assaulted, abandoned, abused,
which may extend to five years and shall also be
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exposed or neglected in a manner likely to cause
liable to fine of one lakh rupees: Provided that, if
Whoever uses a child, for vending, peddling,
such child unnecessary mental or physical
for the purpose of begging, the person amputates
carrying, supplying or smuggling any intoxicating
suffering, shall be punishable with imprisonment
or maims the child, he shall be punishable with
liquor, narcotic drug or psychotropic substance,
for a term which may extend to three years or with
rigorous imprisonment for a term not less than
shall be liable for rigorous imprisonment for a term
fine of one lakh rupees or with both: Provided
seven years which may extend up to ten years, and
which may extend to seven years and shall also be
that in case it is found that such abandonment
shall also be liable to fine of five lakh rupees. (2)
liable to a fine up to one lakh rupees.
of the child by the biological parents is due to
Whoever, having the actual charge of, or control
circumstances beyond their control, it shall be
over the child, abets the commission of an offence
may extend up to one lakh rupees.
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Section 79 of JJ Act, 2015