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- Article 17- Abolition of Untouchability:
- Untouchability is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden.
- In fact, the enforcement of any disability arising out of untouchability shall be an offense punishable in accordance with the law.
- Abolition of untouchability has been included among the fundamental rights under article17.
- In fact, this is one of the few fundamental rights which is available against individuals.
- To make an untouchability law further strong, parliament passed an Untouchability (offenses) Act in 1955.
- However, this act was further amended and also renamed in the year of 1976 as Protection of the Civil Rights Act, 1955.
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