Section 160: Prohibition of making discriminatory treatment

1) Except as otherwise provided by laws, no authority who exercises power under law shall, in the exercise of such power or a general law, intentionally make a discriminatory treatment against any citizen on grounds of origin, religion, color, caste, race, sex, physical condition, disability, condition of health, marital status, pregnancy, economic condition, language or region, ideology or on similar other grounds.

2) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or a fine not exceeding thirty thousand rupees or both the sentences.