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Explain the provisions of the 1955 Untouchability Offences Act. |
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Answer» The Untouchability (Offences) Act-1955 provides penalties for the following offences: 1. Preventing a person on the grounds of untouchability, from entering a place of public worship, offering prayer therein or taking water from a tank, well or spring. 2. Enforcing all kinds of social disabilities such as denying access to any shop, public restaurant, public hospital or educational institutions, hotel or any other place of public entertainment, the use of any road, river, well, tank, water tap, cremation ground, sanitary convenience and Dharmashalas. 3. Enforcing occupational, professional or trade disabilities in the matter or enjoyment of any benefit under the charitable trust in the construction or occupation of any residential premises in any locality or the observance of any social or religious usages or ceremony. 4. Refusing to sell goods or render services to an untouchable. |
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