time being in force and includes any person acting in his official capacity under the Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be;] (c) ―Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes‖ shall have the meanings assigned to them respectively under clause (24) and clause (25) of article 366 of the Constitution; (d) ―Special Court‖ means a Court of Session specified as a Special Court in section 14; (e) ―Special Public Prosecutor‖ means a Public Prosecutor specified as a Special Public Prosecutor or an advocate referred to in section 15; [(ea) ―Schedule‖ means the Schedule appended to this Act; 1 (eb) ―social boycott‖ means a refusal to permit a person to render to other person or receive from him any customary service or to abstain from social relations that one would maintain with other person or to isolate him from others; (ec) ―victim‖ means any individual who falls within the definition of the ―Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes‖ under clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 2, and who has suffered or experienced physical, mental, psychological, emotional or monetary harm or harm to his property as a result of the commission of any offence under this Act and includes his relatives, legal guardian and legal heirs; (ed) ―witness‖ means any person who is acquainted with the facts and circumstances, or is in possession of any information or has knowledge necessary for the purpose of investigation, inquiry or trial of any crime involving an offence under this Act, and who is or may be required to give information or make a statement or produce any document during investigation, inquiry or trial of such case and includes a victim of such offence;] 2 [(f) the words and expressions used but not defined in this Act and defined in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872) or the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), as the case may be, shall be deemed to have the meanings respectively assigned to them in those enactments.] (2) Any reference in this Act to any enactment or any provision thereof shall, in relation to an area in which such enactment or such provision is not in force, be construed as a reference to the corresponding law, if any, in force in that area. CHAPTER II OFFENCES OF ATROCITIES 3. Punishments for offences atrocities.—3[(1) Whoever, not being a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe,— (a) puts any inedible or obnoxious substance into the mouth of a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe or forces such member to drink or eat such inedible or obnoxious substance; (b) dumps excreta, sewage, carcasses or any other obnoxious substance in premises, or at the entrance of the premises, occupied by a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe; (c) with intent to cause injury, insult or annoyance to any member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe, dumps excreta, waste matter, carcasses or any other obnoxious substance in his neighbourhood; (d) garlands with footwear or parades naked or semi-naked a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe; 1. Ins. by Act 1 of 2016, s. 3 (w.e.f. 26-1-2016). 2. Subs. by s. 3, ibid., for clause (f) (w.e.f. 26-1-2016). 3. Subs. by s. 4, ibid., for sub-section (1) (w.e.f. 26-1-2016). 2