7.2 Against Untouchability

The constitutional provisions: Article 24 (the untouchability's prohibition — the religious-and- customary faces' ban: the temples'-and-water's-and-public-places' discrimination barred); Article 40 (the Dalit rights: the 40(1) participation; the education-and-health faces; the land-and-housing provisions; the traditional-occupations' modern-professions face). The statutory provisions: the Caste-Based Discrimination and Untouchability (Offence and Punishment) Act 2064 (2011) — the untouchability's-and-caste-discrimination's criminalisation: the offences' catalogue (the exclusion-from-places, the services' denial, the incitement, the social-boycott faces); the punishment-and-compensation (the victim's additional compensation); the practice's persistence (the water-and-temple faces' record; the inter-caste-marriage's violence — the prosecution's record); the Supreme Court's Dalit-line (the 2005-era cluster — the Dalit-rights' recognition jurisprudence); the audit: the law's strength + the enforcement's weakness (the underreporting; the mediation's privatisation).