Section 24 of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 deals with:

Section 24 deals with the exposure and abandonment of a senior citizen: it punishes a person having care of a senior citizen who leaves him in any place "with the intention of wholly abandoning" him. Cognizance of offences is in s.25, void transfers in s.23 and good-faith protection in s.28.