law: Children Act, 1960
  50. Contribution by parents
  (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, if able to do
  
  so, in the prescribed manner.
  (2) The competent
  
  authority before making any order under sub-section (1) 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
  
  case of illegitimacy, his putative father:
  Provided that where the child
  
  is illegitimate and an order for his maintenance has been made under 14[section
  
  125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973], the competent authority shall not
  
  ordinarily make an order for contribution against the putative father, but may
  
  order the whole or any part of tile 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
  
  child.
  (4) Any order made
  
  under this section may be enforced in the same manner as an order 14[section
  
  125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973].