- The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, criminalizes the wrongful dispossession or interference with the lands of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
- As per law, a scheduled tribe land holder can only sell his land to schedule tribe person. if any person buy a land from a scheduled tribe by hiding facts, he can go behind the bar , and government will return back the land to original land owner at anytime if he approaches authority.
- Further for selling the plot to non tribe person , permission is required from the office of the DM /Collector , and the said office will grant approval after getting the recommendation from the Tribal Advisory Committee under the clause (b) of Sub-Section 1 of Section 187 of the said Act.
- Further , before granting permission by the advisory committee of the Sch. Tribes , the Collector shall make an inquiry as well.