Claim
This section (JJ Act Section 75) applies to caretakers of children who beat children, torment them mentally or physically, or deliberately neglect them.
“यह धारा बच्चों की देखभाल करने वाले उन लोगों पर लगती है जो बच्चों से मारपीट करते हैं। मानसिक शारीरिक रूप से प्रताड़ित करते हैं। जानबूझकर उनकी अपेक्षा करते हैं।”▶ Watch source segment
Rationale
The anchor's description matches Section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015: it applies to persons having actual charge of or control over a child (i.e., caretakers) who assault, abuse, or wilfully neglect the child in a manner likely to cause unnecessary mental or physical suffering. Her three examples — beating, mental/physical torment, deliberate neglect ('उपेक्षा', apparently transcribed as 'अपेक्षा') — are a fair paraphrase of the statutory language, though the section also covers abandonment and exposure, which she did not mention.
Evidence
- https://www.indiacode.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/2148/1/a2016-2.pdf Official text of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015. Section 75 penalizes 'whoever, having the actual charge of, or control over, a child, assaults, abandons, abuses, exposes or wilfully neglects the child... in a manner likely to cause such child unnecessary mental or physical suffering.' ✓ reachable · archived
- https://indiankanoon.org/doc/145448272/ Section 75 JJ Act 2015 as published on Indian Kanoon, confirming the provision covers assault, abuse, and wilful neglect causing mental or physical suffering by persons in charge of a child. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/supreme-court/sc-narang-v-state-nct-of-delhi-anr-2025-insc-688-juvenile-justice-act-section-75-control-victim-child-1577594 Supreme Court ruling confirming Section 75 applies only where the accused had actual charge of or control over the child — consistent with the anchor's framing that it targets caretakers. ✓ reachable · archived