1. To be deemed to have committed cast-based discrimination and untouchability: (1) If any person commits, or causes to be committed, any act referred to in this Section on the ground of custom, tradition, religion, culture, rituals, origin, caste, race, descent, community, occupation or business or physical condition shall be deemed to have committed untouchability and discrimination.

(2)        No one shall, on the ground of custom, tradition, religion, culture, rituals, origin, caste, race, descent, community, occupation or business or physical condition do or cause to be done any of the following acts in any public or private place against a person, by making untouchability or discrimination.
(a)        To prevent, control or restrict anyone in any way from entering, attending or participating.
(b)        To expel anyone individually or collectively from a public place or public occasion or to make social exclusion or discrimination of any kind or to impose restriction on such act or to demonstrate any other kind of intolerant behaviour.
(3)        No one shall, on the ground of origin, caste, race, descent, community, occupation or business or physical condition, deprive a person of using or enjoying public service.
(4)        No one shall, on the ground of origin, caste, race, descent, community, occupation or business or physical condition,deprive a person of organizing public occasion or performing any act to be organized publicly.
(5)        No one shall instigate or provoke anyone to commit an act that causes untouchability or discrimination or abet any one to commit such act, or knowingly participate in such act.
(6)        No one shall, one the ground of origin, caste, race, descent, community, occupation or business or physical condition prohibit any one to carry on profession or business or compel any one to carry on any occupation or business.
(7)        No one shall, on the ground of origin, caste, race, descent, community, occupation or business or physical condition, deprive or cause to deprive any one of performing any religious act.
(8)        No one shall, on the ground of origin, caste, race, descent, community, occupation or business or physical condition, prevent, or cause to prevent, anyone from producing selling or distributing any goods, services or facilities.
(9)     No one shall, while producing, selling or distributing any goods, services or facilities, produce, sell or distribute any goods, services or facilities only to the person belonging to a particular caste or race or prevent such a person from purchasing or obtaining the same.
(10)      No one shall, on the ground of caste or race, exclude any member of family or prevent him or her from entering into the house or evict him or her from the house or village, or compel him or her to leave the house or village.
(11)      No one shall, on the ground of origin, caste race, descent, community, occupation or business prevent a person of marriageable age under the prevailing law from getting inter-caste marriage or deny to perform the naming ceremony for the person born from such marriage or compel, or cause to compel, one to dissolve the already concluded marriage.
(12)   No one shall, by disseminating, publishing or exhibiting any audio-visual material, article, picture, figure, cartoon, poster, book or literature or by way of electronic means or any other manner, denote hierarchical supremacy of any person or community on the ground of origin, caste or race of such a person or community or justify social discrimination on the ground of caste, race or untouchability or transmit the views based on untouchability and caste-supremacy or hatred or instigate, or cause to be instigated, in any manner caste-based discrimination.
(13)     No one shall, on the ground of origin, caste race, descent, community, occupation or business, deny, or cause to be denied, anyone to provide employment or discriminate in remuneration.