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Whoever— Penalty for abetting escape of children. (a) knowingly assists or induces, directly or indirectly, a child detained in or placed out on licence from a children's home or special school to escape from the children's home or spt cial school or from any person with whom he is placed out on licence_ or from the person with whom he is boarded out under the provisions of this Act ; and (b) knowingly harbours, conceals or prevents from returning to the children's home or special school or to any person with whom he is placed out on licence or with whom he is boarded out under this Act, a child who has so escaped or knowingly assists in so doing ; 156 HARYANA GOVT GAZ. (EXTRA.), FEBRUARY 12, 1974 (IVIAGIIA 23, 1895 SAKA) Contribution by parents. Control of custo- dian over child. shall be punishable with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two months or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees or with both. 55- (1) The competent authority which makes an order for sending a neglected child or a delinquent child to a children's home or a special school or placing the child under the care of a fit person may make an order requiring the parent or other person liable to maintain the child to contribute to his maintenance in the prescribed manlier. (2) The competent authority before making any order under sub -section (I) shall inquire into the circumstances of the parent or other person liable to maintain the child and shall record evidence, if any, in the presence of the parent or such other person, as the case may be. (3) The person liable to maintain a child shall, for the purposes of sub- section (1), include in the ease of illegitimacy, his putative father : Provided that where the child is illegitimate and an order for his maintenance has been made under section 488 of the Code of Criminal Pro- cedure, 1898 (Central Act 5 of 1898), the competent authority shall not ordi- narily make an order for contribution against the putative father, but may order the whole or any part of the sums accruing due under the said order for maintenance to be paid to such person as may be named by the competent authority and such sum shall be paid by him towards the maintenance of the (4) Any order made under this section may be enforced in the same manner as an order under section 488 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Central Act 5 of 1898).