Punishment for offences of atrocities:-

• Who ever, not being a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe -

i. forces a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe to drink or eat any inedible 

or obnoxious substance.

ii. acts with intent to cause injury, insult or annoyance to any member of a Scheduled 

Caste, or a Scheduled Tribe by dumping excreta, waste matter, carcasses or any other

obnoxious substance in his premises or neighbourhood. 

iii. forcibly removes clothes from the person of a member of a Schedul-ed Caste or a 

Scheduled Tribe or parades him naked or with painted face or body or commits any 

similar act which is derogatory to human dignity.

iv. wrongfully occupies or cultivates any land owned by, or allotted to, or notified by any 

competent authority to be allotted to, a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe or gets the land allotted to him transferred.

v. wrongfully dispossesses a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe from his land or premises or interferes with the enjoyment of his rights over any land, premises or water.

vi. compels or entices a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe to do 'begar' or other similar forms of forced or bonded labour other than any compulsory service for public purposes imposed by Government.

vii. forces or intimidates a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe not to vote .

or to vote to a particular candidate or to vote in a manner other than that provided by 

law.

viii. institutes false, malicious or vexatious suit or criminal or other legal proceedings 

against a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe.

ix. gives any false or frivolous information to any public servant and thereby causes such 

public servant to use his lawful power to the injury or annoyance of a member of a 

Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe.

x. intentionally insults or intimidates with intent to humiliate a member of a Scheduled 

Caste or a Scheduled Tribe in any place within public view.

xi. assaults or uses force to any woman belonging to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled .

Tribe with intent to dishonour or outrage her modesty.

xii. being in a position to dominate the will of a woman belonging to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe and uses that position to exploit her sexually to which she would not 

have otherwise agreed.

xiii. corrupts or fouls the water of any spring, reservoir or any other source ordinarily used 

by members of the Scheduled Castes or a Scheduled Tribes so as to render it less fit for the purpose for which it is ordinarily used..