Section 33, The Child Right Act, 2007

(1) No person shall subject a child to torture or other cruel,inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment including any cultural practice which dehumanises or is injurious to the physical and mental welfare of a child. (2) No correction of a child is justifiable which is unreasonable in kind or in degree according to the age, physical and mental condition of the child and no correction is justifiable if the child by reason of tender age or otherwise is incapable of understanding the purpose of the correction. (3) The Corporal Punishment Act is repealed.