Section 6 — Protection from cruelty and inhuman treatment.

6. Protection from cruelty and inhuman treatment.—(1) The appropriate Government shall take 

measures to protect persons with disabilities from being subjected to torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading 

treatment. 

(2) No person with disability shall be a subject of any research without,— 

(i) his or her free and informed consent obtained through accessible modes, means and formats of 

communication; and 

(ii) prior permission of a Committee for Research on Disability constituted in the prescribed 

manner for the purpose by the appropriate Government in which not less than half of the Members 

shall themselves be either persons with disabilities or Members of the registered organisation as 

defined under clause (z) of section 2.