Whoever on the
ground of “untouchability” enforces against any person any disability with
regard to-
(i)
access to any shop, public restaurant,
hotel or place of public entertainment; or
(ii) the use
of any utensils, and other articles kept in any public restaurant, hotel, dharamshala,
sarai or musafirkhana for the use of the general public or of (any
section thereof); or
(iii)
the practice of any profession or the carrying
on any of occupation, trade or business ( or employment in any job); or
(iv) the use of, or access to, any
river, stream, spring, well, tank, cister, water-tap or other watering place,
or any bathing ghat, burial or cremation ground, any sanitary convenience, any
road, or passage, or any other place of public resort which other members of
the public or (any section thereof), have a right to use or have access to; or
(v) the use
of, or access to, any place used for a charitable or a public purpose
maintained wholly or partly out of State funds or dedicated to the use of the
general public or (any section thereof); or
(vi) the enjoyment of any benefit
under a charitable trust created for the benefit of the general public or of
(any section thereof); or
(vii)
the use of, or access to, any public
conveyance; or
(viii)
the construction, acquisition, or
occupation of any residential premises
in any locality, whatsoever;or
(ix) the use
of any dharamshala, sarai or musafirkhana, which is opeon to the general public, or to (any section
thereof); or
(x)
the observance of any social or
religious custom, usage or ceremony or (taking part in, or taking out, any religious,
social or cultural procession); or
(xi) the use of jewellery and finery,
shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term of
not less than one month and not more than six months and also with fine which
shall be not less than one hundred rupees and not more than five hundred
rupees.
