Section 161
Prohibition Of Purchasing, Selling Or Distributing Goods Or Service With Discrimination
ation: (1) No person, in purchasing, selling or
distributing any goods or services, shall purchase, sell or distribute
such goods or services from or to only any person belonging to any
particular caste, race or community or omit to provide, sell or
distribute such goods or services to any person belonging to any
particular caste, race or community.
Provided that where a person, with the approval of the
competent authority under law, provides, sells or distributes any
particular goods or services to only any person belonging to any
particular caste, race or community, for the protection of interest and
development of a class which is economically, socially or
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educationally backward, such person shall not be considered to have
committed the offence under this Section.
(2) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the
offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of
imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or a fine not
exceeding ten thousand rupees or both the sentences.