BNS 93 — Exposure and abandonment of child under twelve years of age, by parent or person having care of it.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

93. 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.
Concealment of birth by secret disposal of dead body.

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