The Prevention of Atrocities Act 1989 lists several levels of crimes. Some of them are

I. Modes of humiliation

(i) Force a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe to drink or eat any inedible or obnoxious substance.

(ii) Forcibly removes clothes from the person of a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe or parades him or her naked or with painted face or body or commits any similar act which is derogatory to human dignity.

II. Actions that deprive Dalits and Adivasis of their possessions

wrongfully occupies or cultivates any land owned by, or allotted to, a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe or gets the land allotted to him transferred.

III. Crimes against Dalit and tribal women

Assaults or uses force on any woman belonging to a Scheduled ; Caste or a Scheduled Tribe with intent to dishonour her.