Question : UNCONSTITUTIONAL PRACTICES ADOPTED BY TRIBAL PANCHAYATS

(a) whether illegal and unconstitutional practices of outcasting, imposing monetary penalty, forcing to do humiliating acts and inflicting corporal punishments are being followed by the tribal and caste based Panchayats of the country to settle the internal disputes; and

(b) if so, the steps proposed to be taken by the Government to check and ban such practices?

MINISTER OF LAW, JUSTICE & COMPANY AFFAIRS (SHRI ARUN JAITLEY)


(a) & (b) : As per information received from the Ministry of Rural Development which is administratively concerned with the subject matter, no such practices have been reported to that Ministry. Therefore, no decision has been initiated so far to ban such practices.