Section 28, The Child Right Act, 2007

(1) Every child has the right to be protected frominvolvement in armed or any other kind of violent conflicts, and accordingly, the minimum age of recruitment into the armed forces shall be eighteen. (2) The Government shall not - (a) recruit or conscript any child into military or para-military service or permit such recruitment or conscription by the armed forces; (b) use or permit the use of land mines and other weapons declared by international instruments to be adverse to children.