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IPC Section 491 - Breach of contract to attend on and su pply wants of helpless person
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Simple language explanation
IPC Section 491 deals with breach of contract to attend on and su pply wants of helpless person.
Full official legal text
491. Breach of contract to attend on and su pply wants of 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 so to do, shall be punished with
imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may
extend to two hundred rupees, or with both.
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