(1)

Whoever

(a) prevents any person from exercising any right accruing to him by reason of the abolition of untouchability under article 17 of the Constitution; or

(b) molests, injures, annoys, obstructs or causes or attempts to cause obstruction to any person in the exercise of any such right or molests, injures, annoys or boycotts any person by reason of his having exercised any such right; or

(c) by words, either spoken or written, or by signs or by visible representations or otherwise, incites or encourages any person or the public generally to practice untouchability in any form whatsoever; [or] [Inserted by Act 106 of 1976, Section 9 (w.e.f. 19.11.1976).]

(d) [ insults or attempts to insult, on the ground of untouchability, a member of a Scheduled Caste,] [Inserted by Act 106 of 1976, Section 9 (w.e.f. 19.11.1976).]

(a) refuses to let to such other person or refuses to permit such other person, to use or occupy any house or land or refuses to deal with, work for hire for, or do business with, such other person or to render to him or receive from him any customary service, or refuses to do any of the said things on the terms on which such things would be commonly done in the ordinary course of business; or

(b) abstains from such social, professional or business relations as he would ordinarily maintain with such other person.

(i) if he, directly or indirectly, preaches untouchability or its practice in any form; or

(ii) if he justifies, whether on historical, philosophical or religious grounds or on the ground of any tradition of the caste system or on any other ground, the practice of untouchability in any form.]

(2)

Whoever

(i) denies to any person belonging to his community or any section thereof any right or privilege to which such person would be entitled as a member of such community or section, or

(ii) takes any part in the ex-communication of such person, on the ground that such person has refused to practice untouchability or that such person has done any act in furtherance of the objects of this Act, that such person has done any act in furtherance of the objects of this Act,

(1)

Whoever compels any person, on the ground of untouchability, to do any scavenging or sweeping or to remove any carcass or to flay any animal or the remove the umbilical cord or to do any other job of a similar nature, shall be deemed to have enforced a disability arising out of untouchability.

(2)

Whoever is deemed under sub-section (1) to have enforced a disability arising out of untouchability shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than three months and not more than six months and also with fine which shall not be less than one hundred rupees and not more than five hundred rupees.

Explanation. For the purposes of this section, compulsion includes a threat of social or economic boycott.]