law: Scheduled Castes and The Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989
  5. Enhanced punishment for subsequent conviction
  Whoever, having already been convicted of an offence under this
  
  Chapter is convicted for the second offence or any offence subsequent to second
  
  offence, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be
  
  less than one year but which may extend to the punishment provided for that
  
  offence.