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Section 317 - Indian Penal Code, 1860
Indian Penal Code, 1860
317. Exposure and abandonment of child under twelve years, by parent or person having care of it
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.
Related Sections
- Section 390: Robbery
- Section 173: Preventing service of summons or other proceeding, or preventing publication thereof
- Section 152: Assaulting or obstructing public servant when suppressing riot, etc.
- Section 254: Delivery of coin as genuine, which, when first possessed, the deliverer did not know to be altered
- Section 400: Punishment for belonging to gang of dacoits
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