Section 184: Prohibition of throwing or abandoning person under one’s own guardianship

1) A person, being bound to care or maintain an infant, child, disabled patient or elderly person, shall not so throw, abandon or desert as to cause danger to the body or life of such infant, child, patient or elderly person.

2) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees.

3) If the offence referred to in sub-section (1) causes the death of such child, disabled patient or elderly person, the offender shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years and a fine not exceeding seventy thousand rupees.

Provided that if the throwing, abandonment or neglect causes the death of an infant, the offender shall be liable to the sentence referred to in Section 177.