Choose the incorrect statement s 1 The Constitution prescribes penalties for practicing untouchabili...........

Indian Polity Fundamental Rights

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Choose the incorrect statement(s)

1) The Constitution prescribes penalties for practicing untouchability.

2) The Constitution defines untouchability as a vicious historical practice.

3) Right to Equality includes equal pay for equal work.

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1 and 2

3 only

2 and 3 only

1 2 and 3

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Explanation:

1st statement is incorrect because it is under the Protection of Civil Rights Act (1955), the offences committed on the ground of untouchability are punishable either by imprisonment up to six months or by fine upto `500 or both.
2nd statement is incorrect because the term ‘untouchability’ has not been defined either in the Constitution or in the Act. However, the Mysore High Court held that the subject matter of Article 17 is not untouchability in its literal or grammatical sense but the ‘practice as it had developed historically in the country’. It refers to the social disabilities imposed on certain classes of persons by reason of their birth in certain castes.
3rd statement is incorrect because right to equality means political and civil justice not economic.