Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
Section 93
Whoever being the father or mother of a child under the age of twelve years, or
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Exposure and abandonment having the care of such child, shall expose or leave such child in any place with the intention of child under of wholly abandoning such child, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description twelve years for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both. of age, by parent or Explanation.—This section is not intended to prevent the trial of the offender for person having murder or culpable homicide, as the case may be, if the child die in consequence of the care of it. exposure. Concealment