Question

describe the different laws and policies by the government for the protection of marginalized community in the country

Answer Should be Point wise

Answer 1

force a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe to drink or eat any inedible or obnoxious substance;

forcibly removes clothes from the person of a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe or parades him or her naked or with painted face or body or commits any similar act which is derogatory to human dignity.

Secondly, it lists actions that dispossess Dalits and Adivasis of their meager resources or which force them into performing slave labour. Thus, the Act sets out to punish anyone who

wrongfully occupies or cultivates any land owned by, or allotted to, a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe or gets the land allotted to him transferred.