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Mention a few crimes listed in the Prevention of Atrocities Act 1989.

The prevention of atrocities act 1989 consider the following as crime:


● Forcing to eat or drink and offensive substance.


● Wrongful deprivation of cultivation of a person's land.


● Wrongful deprivation of a person's right over any land or water.


● Forceful work as a bonded labor.


● Causing injury on the basis of false information.


● Deprivation to access to clean drinking water.


● Forceful leaving of a person house or village.


Forcibly removing the cloth of the member of scheduled caste and Scheduled tribe for praising him naked or with a painted face or body or any similar act which is derogatory to human dignity.


Wrongfully occupying the land of a member of a scheduled caste scheduled tribe.


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