Unlike other places, where people love their pets more than their blood, we indians respect the relationships. Thats our specialty.
The Indian government, for some good reason, thought through in the same lines. Do you believe that?
Thinking of abandoning your parents? Don't!
Becoz, there is a chance that you will end up behind the bars for atleast a couple of months and that too with an unbailable offense! oooooh. Mera bharath mahaan.
Way to go......
Just in case, if the news goes offline [Such news are prone to go in bins soon.....]
Thinking of abandoning your parents? Don't!
New Delhi: Children who abandon parents in their twilight years may face three months' imprisonment and cannot even appeal against the punishment.
A bill passed by Parliament today will ensure that elderly people are taken care of by their children failing which they would face penal action.
"The bill provides for a jail term of three months if children do not look after old parents. The penal provision is meant to act as a deterrent," Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Meira Kumar told Rajya Sabha.
Kumar said children cannot go in for an appeal. "This has been done deliberately as they have a lot of resources which the old people do not have," she said.
Later, the Rajya Sabha passed the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Bill, 2007 by a voice vote.
The statement of objects and reasons of the bill says though the parents can claim maintenance under the CrPC, the procedure is both "time-consuming as well as expensive", and there was need to have simple, inexpensive and speedy provisions for care of parents.
The bill has a clause for punishment to those who abandon their parents or relatives whose property they have inherited or would get as their legal heirs.
The bill, already passed by Lok Sabha, provides for setting up of a tribunal in each district for helping the old in distress.
It also has a provision for establishment of old age homes which, the Minister said, should be the last resort for the poor and the childless.
1 comment:
It's good that whatever we considered as ethics those days are being made into laws. Nobody seems to believe or follow in ethics nowadays, me one perfect example... Other stuff like helping the beggars on the roadside, helping the blind to cross the road, giving route information to new-to-city strangers in the road should also be made into laws for any road user. Duty to help and Right to be helped can be two looked into if the Indian Government revises the 50+ year old constitution. Adidhadi udhavara maadhiri annan thambi udhava maattaanga!
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