(1) If a complaint is filed by
a person or a child welfare organization incorporated pursuant to
law specifying that a person who is entitled to exercise the paternal
authority pursuant to this Chapter has committed any of the
following acts against a minor and, if the allegation is proved from
an inquiry into the matter, the court may prevent such a person from
exercising such authority:
(a) Subjecting a minor to cruel, inhumane or torturous
punishment or treatment,
(b) Neglecting, disregarding or abusing the minor from
time to time,
(c) Engaging a minor in an immoral or sexual
profession,
(d) Employing a minor in a work likely to endanger the
body, life or health,
(e) Causing loss and damage to a minor’s property by
spending it against his or her interest or selling such
property to others with the intention of taking it
subsequently,
(f) Compelling a minor to abandon family life by
making him or her a Sanyasi, fakir, monk, nun,
Paschar or in similar other way,
(g) Engaging a minor in begging, except while
observing a religious or cultural rite,
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(h) Causing a minor to do any other act constituting an
offense under law.
(2) If a restriction is imposed pursuant to sub-section (1),
the court shall appoint a guardian according to law, authorizing him
or her to exercise the parental authority in respect of such a minor.
(3) If the guardian is appointed to exercise the parental
authority pursuant to sub-section (2), such a guardian may exercise
the parental authority under this Chapter in consonance with the
interests of the minor.
(4) If the person, who is prevented from exercising the
parental authority pursuant to sub-section (1), makes a petition in
the Court, making an undertaking not to repeat the act referred to in
the said sub-section, the court may lift the restriction imposed on
him or her and revoke the appointment as referred to in sub-section
(2).