The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989
Whoever, having already been convicted of an offence under this Chapter is convicted for the second offence or any offence subsequent to the second offence, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than one year but which may extend to the punishment provided for that offence.
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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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