The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989
The provisions of section 360 of the Code and the provisions of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 (20 of 1958) shall not apply to any person above the age of eighteen years who is found guilty of having committed an offence under this Act.
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Official India Code text: The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1920/1/aA1989-33.pdf, 370,806 bytes, sha256 b52783c516d99d3c...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-03. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.
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