What crimes have been dealt with by the scheduled Caste and scheduled Tribes Act?
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This Act contains a very long list of crimes,
some of which are too horrible even to contemplate. The
Act does not only describe terrible crimes.
The Act distinguishes several levels of crimes. Firstly, it
lists modes of humiliation that are both physically horrific
and morally reprehensible and seeks to punish those who
(i) force a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe
to drink or eat any inedible or obnoxious substance; … (iii)
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 meagre resources or which force them into
performing slave labour. Thus, the Act sets out to punish
anyone who (iv) 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.....
the Act recognizes that crimes against
Dalit and tribal women are of a specific kind and, therefore,
seeks to penalise anyone who (xi) assaults or uses force on
any woman belonging to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled
Tribe with intent to dishonour her …