law: Scheduled Castes and The Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989
  3. Punishments for offences of atrocities
  (1) Whoever, not being a member of a Scheduled Caste or a
  
  Scheduled Tribe,-
  (i) forces a member of a Scheduled Caste or a
  
  Scheduled Tribe to drink or eat any inedible or obnoxious substance;
  (ii) acts with intent to cause injury, insult
  
  or annoyance to any member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe by dumping
  
  excreta, waste matter, carcasses or any other obnoxious substance in his
  
  promises or neighborhood;
  (iii) forcibly removes clothes from the person
  
  of a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe or parades him naked or
  
  with painted face or body or commits any similar act which is derogatory to
  
  human dignity;
  (iv) wrongfully occupies or cultivates any
  
  land owned by, or allotted to, or notified by any competent authority to be
  
  allotted to, a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe or gets the
  
  land allotted to him transferred;
  (v) wrongfully dispossesses a member of a
  
  Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe from his land or premises or interferes
  
  with the enjoyment of his rights over any land, premises or water;
  (vi) compels or entices a member of a
  
  Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe to do 'beggar' or other similar forms of
  
  forced or bonded labor other than any compulsory service for public purposes
  
  imposed by Government;
  (vii) forces or intimidates a member. of a
  
  Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe not to vote or to vote to a particular
  
  candidate or to vote in a manner other than that provided by law;
  (viii) institutes false, malicious or
  
  vexatious suit or criminal or other legal proceedings against a member of a
  
  Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe;
  (ix) gives, any false or frivolous information
  
  to any public servant and thereby causes such public servant to use his lawful
  
  power to the injury or annoyance of a member of a Scheduled Caste or a
  
  Scheduled Tribe;
  (x) intentionally insults or intimidates with
  
  intent to humiliate a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe in any
  
  place within public view;
  (xi) assaults or uses force to any woman
  
  belonging to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe with intent to dishonor or
  
  outrage her modesty;
  (xii) being in a position to dominate the will
  
  of a woman belonging to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe and uses that
  
  position to exploit her sexually to which she would not have otherwise agreed;
  (xiii) corrupts or fouls the water of any
  
  spring, reservoir or any other source ordinarily used by members of the
  
  Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes so as to render it less fit for the
  
  purpose for which it is ordinarily used;
  (xiv) denies a member of a Scheduled Caste or
  
  a Scheduled Tribe any customary right of passage to a place of public resort or
  
  obstructs such member so as to prevent hint from using or having access to a
  
  place of public resort to which other members of public or any section thereof
  
  have a right to use or access to;
  (xv) forces or causes a member of a Scheduled
  
  Caste or a Scheduled Tribe to leave his house, village or other place of
  
  residence, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be
  
  less than six months but which may extend to five years and with fine.
  (2) Whoever, not being a member of a Scheduled Caste or a
  
  Scheduled Tribe,-
  (i) gives or fabricates false evidence
  
  intending thereby to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby
  
  cause, any member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe to be convicted of
  
  an offence which is capital by the law for the time being in force shall be
  
  punished with imprisonment for life and with fine; and if an innocent member of
  
  a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe be convicted and executed in consequence
  
  of such false or fabricated evidence, the person who gives or fabricates such
  
  false evidence, shall be punished with death;
  (ii) gives or fabricates false evidence intending
  
  thereby to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause, any
  
  member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe to be convicted of an offence
  
  which is not capital but punishable with imprisonment for a term of seven years
  
  or upwards, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be
  
  less than six months but which may extend to seven years or upwards and with
  
  fine;
  (iii) commits mischief by fire or any explosive
  
  substance intending to cause or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby
  
  cause damage to any property belonging to a member of a Scheduled Caste or a
  
  Scheduled Tribe, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall
  
  not be less than six months but which may extend to seven years and with fine;
  (iv) commits mischief by fire or any explosive
  
  substance intending to cause or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby
  
  cause destruction of any building which is ordinarily used as a place of
  
  worship or as a place for human dwelling or as a place for custody of the
  
  property by a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe, shall be
  
  punishable with imprisonment for life and with fine;
  (v) commits any offence under the Indian Penal
  
  Code (45 of 1860) punishable with imprisonment for a term of ten years or more
  
  against a person or property on the ground that such person is a member of a
  
  Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe or such property belongs to such member,
  
  shall be punishable with imprisonment for life and with fine;
  (vi) knowingly or having reason to believe
  
  that an offence has been committed under this Chapter, causes any evidence of
  
  the commission of that offence to disappear with the intention of screening the
  
  offender from legal punishment, or with that intention gives any information
  
  respecting the offence which he knows or believes to be false, shall be
  
  punishable with the punishment provided for that offence; or
  (vii) being a public servant, commits any
  
  offence under this section, 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.