law: Constitution of India, 1949 
     15. Prohibition of discrimination on grounds
  
  of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth.- 
  (1) The State shall not discriminate against any
  
  citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of
  
  them.
  (2) No citizen shall, on grounds only of
  
  religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them, be subject to any
  
  disability, liability, restriction or condition with regard to- 
  (a) access to shops,
  
  public restaurants, hotels and palaces of public entertainment; or
  (b) the use of wells,
  
  tanks, bathing ghats, roads and places of public resort maintained wholly or
  
  partly out of State funds or dedicated to the use of the general public.
  (3) Nothing in this article shall prevent the
  
  State from making any special provision for women and children.
  (4) Nothing in this article or in clause (2) of
  
  Article 29 shall prevent the State from making any special provision for the
  
  advancement of any socially and educationally backward classes of citizens or
  
  for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.