Criminal Intimidation, Insult, Annoyance and Defamation
Being lawfully contracted to attend to or supply the needs of someone helpless due to youth, unsoundness of mind, disease, or bodily weakness, and voluntarily failing to do so, is punished with up to 3 months' imprisonment, up to ₹5,000 fine, or both.
This criminalises abandoning a contractual caregiving duty toward someone who cannot look after themselves - for example, a hired caregiver deliberately neglecting a vulnerable dependent.
A paid caregiver who is contractually bound to look after an elderly or disabled person, but deliberately abandons that duty, commits this offence - relevant to elder-abandonment and elder-care-fraud scenarios where a hired attendant neglects a vulnerable dependent.