Home › The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 › Chapter IX – Other offences against children
Section 75: Punishment for cruelty to child
Whoever, having the actual charge of, or control over, a child, assaults, abandons, abuses, exposes or wilfully neglects the child or causes or procures the child to be assaulted, abandoned, abused, exposed or neglected in a manner likely to cause such child unnecessary mental or physical suffering, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with fine of one lakh rupees or with both:
Source: official text of The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 as published on India Code (PDF). All sections of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.