This section covers breach of contract to supply wants of helpless person in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
Of breach of contract to attend on and supply wants of a helpless person. Breach of contract to attend on and supply wants of a helpless person. Whoever, being bound by a lawful contract to attend on or to supply the wants of any person who, by reason of youth, or of unsoundness of mind, or of a disease or bodily weakness, is helpless or incapable of providing for his own safety or of supplying his own wants, voluntarily omits to do so, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three months, or with a fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, or with both.
What was the old IPC code for Section 357 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, breach of contract to supply wants of helpless person was covered in S. 491*.