List 5 kinds of offenses against any member of SC/ST given in the schedule caste & schedule Tribe (Prevention of atrocities Act 1989?
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Five kinds of offences against any member of the SC/ST are as follows:-
1) Garlanding with footwear or parading naked or semi naked a member of the SC/ST.
2) Putting any inedible or obnoxious substance into the mouth of a member of the SC/ST or forcing such member to drink or eat such inedible or obnoxious substance.
3) Dumping excreta, sewage, carcasses or any other obnoxious substances in premises or at the entrance of the premises, occupied by a member of a SC/ST.
4) With intent causing injury, insult or annoyance to any member of a SC/ST, and dumping excreta, waste matter, carcasses or any other obnoxious substance in his neighbourhood.
5) Wrongfully committing on a member of a SC/ST any act such as removing clothes from the person, forcible tonsuring of head, removing moustaches, painting face or body or any other similar act, which is derogatory to human dignity.