The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989
Subject to the other provisions of this Act, the provisions of section 34, Chapter III, Chapter IV, Chapter V, Chapter VA, section 149 and Chapter XXIII of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), shall, so far as may be, apply for the purposes of this Act as they apply for the purposes of the Indian Penal Code.
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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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