Section 132: Power to restrict parental authority

1) If a complaint is filed by a person or a child welfare organisation incorporated pursuant to law specifying that a person who is entitled to exercise the paternal authority pursuant to this Chapter has committed any of the following acts against a minor, and if the allegation is proved from an inquiry into the matter, the court may prevent such a person from exercising such authority:

(a) Subjecting a minor to cruel, inhumane or torturous punishment or treatment,

(b) Neglecting, disregarding or abusing the minor from time to time,

(c) Engaging a minor in an immoral or sexual profession,

(d) Employing a minor in work likely to endanger the body, life or health,

(e) Causing loss and damage to a minor’s property by spending it against his or her interest or selling such property to others with the intention of taking it subsequently,

(f) Compelling a minor to abandon family life by making him or her a Sanyasi, fakir, monk, nun, Paschar or in a similar other way,

(g) Engaging a minor in begging, except while observing a religious or cultural rite,

(h) Causing a minor to do any other act constituting an offence under the law.

2) If a restriction is imposed pursuant to sub-section (1), the court shall appoint a guardian according to law, authorising him or her to exercise the parental authority in respect of such a minor.

3) If the guardian is appointed to exercise the parental authority pursuant to sub-section (2), such a guardian may exercise the parental authority under this Chapter in consonance with the interests of the minor.

4) If the person, who is prevented from exercising the parental authority pursuant to sub-section (1), makes a petition in the Court, making an undertaking not to repeat the act referred to in the said sub-section, the court may lift the restriction imposed on him or her and revoke the appointment as referred to in sub-section (2).