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Act
Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019
Section number
18
Section reader
18. Offences and penalties.-
Whoever,-
(a) compels or entices a transgender person to indulge in the act of forced or bonded labour other than any compulsory service for public purposes imposed by Government;
(b) denies a transgender person the right of passage to a public place or obstructs such person from using or having access to a public place to which other members have access to or a right to use;
(c) forces or causes a transgender person to leave household, village or other place of residence;
and
(d) harms or injures or endangers the life, safety, health or well-being, whether mental or
physical, of a transgender person or tends to do acts including causing physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal and emotional abuse and economic abuse, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to two years and with fine.
