- established or maintained for the benefit of the general public or any section thereof; or
- (b) does any act which discriminates against person after admission to any any such aforesaid institutions;
shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.
Punishment for refusing to sell goods or render services. 6. Whoever on the ground of "untouchability" refuses to sell any goods or refuses to render any service to any person at the same time and place and on the same terms and conditions at or on which such goods are sold or services are rendered to other persons in the ordinary course of business shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.
Punishment for other offences arising out of "untouchability". 7. (1) Whoever-
- (a) prevents any person from exercising any right accruing to him by reason of the abolition of "untouchability" under Article 17 of the Constitution; or
- (b) molests, injures, annoys, obstructs or causes or attempts to cause obstruction to any person in the exercise of any such right or molests, injures, annoys or boycotts any person by reason of his having exercised any such right; or
- (c) by words, either spoken or written, or by signs or by visible representations or otherwise, incites or encourages any person or class of persons or the public generally to practise "untouchability". in any form whatsoever;
shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.
Explanation.— A person shall be deemed to boycott anotherperson who—
- (a) refuses to let to such other person or refuses to permit such other person, to use or occupy any house or land or refuses to deal with, work for, hire for, or do business with, such other person or to render to him or receive from customary service, or refuses to do any of the said things on the terms on which such things would be commonly done in the ordinary course of business; or
- (b) abstains from such social, professional or business relations as he would ordinarily maintain with such other person.
(2) Whoever-
- (i) denies to any person belonging to his community or any section thereof any right or privilege to which such person would be entitled as a member of such community or section, or
