LAWS IN THE STATE OF DELHI DISCRIMINATING AGAINST PEOPLE AFFECTED BY LEPROSY
SL DISCRIMINATORY LAW PREAMBLE
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1. Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, An Act to consolidate and amend
1957 the law relating to the Municipal
Government of Delhi.
2. Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954 An Act to provide for modification
of zamindari system no as to create
a uniform body of peasant
proprietors without intermediaries,
for the unification of the Punjab
and Agra systems of tenancy taws
in force in the State of Delhi and to
make provision for other matters
connected therewith.
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DISCRIMINATORY PROVISION
Section 414: Power to expellers and disturbers, etc, from markets.
“The person in charge of a market shall prevent the entry therein
of, and shall expel therefrom, any person suffering from leprosy in
whom the process of ulceration has commenced or from any
dangerous disease, who or exposes for sale therein any article or
who, not having purchased the same handles any articles exposed
for sale therein; and he may expel therefrom any person who is
creating a disturbance therein.”
Section 153: Disqualification for membership of the Gaon
Panchayat.
No person shall be entitled to be or remain a member of the Gaon
Panchayat, if he--
[(a) ceases to be a member of the Gaon
Sabha; or]
(b) is suffering from leprosy; or
(c) is an undischarged insolvent; or
(d) is a servant of the Government; or

3. Delhi Panchayat Raj Act, 1954 An Act to establish and develop
local self-government in the rural
areas of Delhi State and to make
better provision for village
administration and development.
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(e) is convicted of an offence involving moral turpitude or order to
give security for good behaviour under section 110 of the Code of
Criminal Procedure, 1898:
Provided that the disqualifications under clause (c) or (e) may be
removed by an order of the Chief Commissioner or the prescribed
authority.
Section 44: Circle Panchayat, Sarpanch and Naib Sarpanch.
(1) The Chief Commissioner or the prescribed authority shall by a
notification in the official Gazette in this behalf, [group into a Circle
such number of continguous Gaon Sabha Areas as the Chief
Commissioner or the prescribed authority may deem fit] and
established for each such circle a Circle Panchayat.
(2) The Circle Panchayat for each circle shall consist of persons
elected in accordance with sub-section (3).
(3) [Every Gaon Sabha in each Circle shall elect from amongst its
members a number of persons of prescribed qualifications] to act
as panches of the Circle Panchayat of that circle. The number of
adults so elected shall be such that from each village in the Gaon
Sabha Area two such adults shall be elected where its population is
1,000 or less and there where its population is more than 1,000. The
election shall be carried out in the manner prescribed. The panel so
elected for each circle shall be called Circle Panchayat.
(4) No person shall be elected or remain panch of the Circle
Panchayat if he is-
(a) unable to read and write Hindi or Urdu; or

4. Delhi Prisons (Treatment of Convicts
Sentenced to Simple Imprisonment,
Death, Female Prisoners, Youthful
Prisoners, Leper Prisoners and
Lunatic Prisoners) Rules, 1988
(b) of unsound mind; or
(c) suffering from leprosy; or
(d) an undischarged insolvent; or
(e) a servant of the Government or any local authority; or
(f) convicted [under the Untouchability (offences) Act, 1955 or] of
an offence involving moral turpitude or ordered to give security for
good behaviour under Section 110 of the Code of Criminal
Procedure, 1898;
(5) All the panches shall elect from amongst themselves a person to
act as Sarpanch, and another person to act as Naib Sarpanch of the
Circle Panchayat.
(6) Any dispute arising out of any election under sub-section (3) or
(5) shall be referred to the prescribed authority; whose decision
shall, subject to revision by the Chief Commis-sioner, be final and
shall not be questioned in a Court of law.
None. Section 43: Procedure when it is desired to transfer a leper
Whenever the Medical Officer records that a prisoner is suffering
from leprosy and that his separation from other prisoners is
necessary, the Superintendent shall submit his descriptive role to
the Inspector General, who shall order the transfer of the prisoner
to a place where there is accommodation for leper convicts.
Section 44: Segregation and disinfection
Any under trial or convicted prisoner who is suffering from leprosy,
shall pending transfer or release be confined in a cell but care shall
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5. Delhi Petty Offences (Trial by
Special Metropolitan Magistrates)
Rules, 1998
In exercise of the powers conferred
by proviso to sub-section (1) of
Section 18 of Code of Criminal
Procedure 1973 (No. 2 of 1974) and
in supersession of the Rules made
earlier under the said section by
this Court, Hon'ble the Acting Chief
Justice and Hon'ble Judges of the
High Court of Delhi at New Delhi,
hereby make the following Rules,
namely:
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be taken that such confinement is not solitary. A cell or other,
compartment occupied by a leper shall be thoroughly disinfected,
the floors renewed, and the walls re-plastered before any other
prisoner is confined in it.
Note: Clothing and bedding used by a leper prisoner should be
destroyed and not reissued.
4. Disqualification of a person.
(1) who does not hold or has not held a post under the Govt/High
Court of Delhi and the Courts subordinate thereto of the rank and
status and does not possess the qualification, if any, attached
thereto, as mentioned in the just preceding Rule ; or
(2) who having held an office under the State or the Union
Government or the High Court and the Courts subordinate thereto,
has been dismissed or removed or compulsorily retired from service
or subjected to any other major penalty for misconduct; or
(3) who having held an office as mentioned in sub-rule (2) has been
convicted and sentenced by a Court for an offence involving moral
delinquency or is charged of any offence constituting moral
turpitude and proceedings against him are pending; or
(4) who having held an office as mentioned in sub-rule (2), is of
unsound mind or who is deaf or mute or blind or suffering from
leprosy or any other contagious disease; or
(5) who having held an office as mentioned in sub-rule (2) has been
adjudicated as an insolvent or an undischarged insolvent; or
 (6) who having held an office as provided in sub-rules (1), (2), (3),
(4) and (5) of Rule 3, is a practicing advocate; shall not be eligible
for conferment of powers of Special Metropolitan Magistrate:

Provided that a practicing advocate as mentioned in sub-rule (6),

shall not be disqualified for conferment of powers of Special
Metropolitan Magistrate, if he, before he is considered for such
conferment, undertakes that he shall have his license as an
advocate suspended immediately on conferment of power of
Special Metropolitan Magistrate and does so before assumption of
charge as such.