{"id":6453,"date":"2007-12-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/12\/07\/india-s-parliament-passes-bill-to-protect-elders\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T12:00:00","slug":"india-s-parliament-passes-bill-to-protect-elders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/12\/07\/india-s-parliament-passes-bill-to-protect-elders\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Parliament Passes Bill to Protect Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/Neglect_of_elders_Bill_passed\/articleshow\/2602531.cms\">timesofindia.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">NEW DELHI, INDIA, December 7, 2007: People who abandon parents or neglect their basic needs or otherwise maltreat them in their twilight years will have to face three months of imprisonment and a penalty of up to US$131. The provision is now enshrined in the new legislation passed by Parliament into law on Thursday. The law &#8212; Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Bill, 2007 &#8212; also talks about setting up an appropriate mechanism to provide need-based maintenance to parents and senior citizens once they attain the age of 60. <\/p>\n<p>Though the parents can claim maintenance under the existing law &#8212; Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1973 &#8212; the procedure is both time consuming and expensive. The new legislation, on the other hand, has made simple, inexpensive and speedy provisions for claiming &#8220;maintenance&#8221; which includes food, clothing, residence and medical attendance and treatment. The bill, passed in Lok Sabha, provides for setting up of a tribunal in each district for helping the old in distress.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, December 7, 2007: People who abandon parents or neglect their basic needs or otherwise maltreat them,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}