In the modern world the no of senior citizen are increasing on a global level.in india for instance by 2025 it is predicted that almost 18% of the whole population would consist of senior citizens. That’s almost 1/5^th of the total population but still the security of senior citizen is in its nascent stage. According to the 2020 report by Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI) almost 5.2% of senior citizen faces violence or abuse in India with the highest cases of abuse of senior citizen found in bihar. Abuse ranges from being physical ,emotional ,psychological etc. it has been observed that senior women face it more than the male counterpart. It has been observed than when one of the partner dies then the other partner has to face more abuse. It has been observed 77.3 % of these kind of abuses were emotional and verbal and 22.7% were physical abuse.

To save the senior citizen from abuse there are a lot of rights and laws in India. Some of them are:

• Article 41: says weaker section has the right to education, work and public assistance and this is the responsibility of state
• Article 46: says that it is the responsibility of the state to save the weaker section of the society from any kind of injustice or abuse.

But all these articles are present in the part 4 of the constitution where it’s a part of directive where it is mentioned that these are more like the moral responsibility of the state and according to article 37 we cant do cases in the court against the court if the state is not following the directive principle.

• Law of hindu adoption and maintainence , 1956 section 20 says that children are responsible for their senior citizen even if they receive no such ancestral property from their parents.
• Under muslim law the children has to take care of their senior citizen
• Crpc sect 125 order for maintenance of wives children and parents ,1973 says that the heir of the property of senior citizen or their children has to take care of the senior citizen or else they have to face fine or jail.
• Property rights says that the senior citizen are directly responsible for their property and they can make anybody the heir of their property
• The senior citizen has to face no income tax till the income of 3 lakh annually
• Railways has discount of upto 30% for male and 50% for female passenger who are above 60 years of age.
• There is a special helpline no 1291 for senior citizen

Still there are  a lot of cases of abuse that are not even reported and the senior citizen of this country are abused behind the four walls. Most of these are because they are afraid of reporting such cases because of shame or they are not aware of their rights.

But still there is hope as in india only there are places like Lakshadweep where there is no such case of abuse of senior citizen.