Abstract

Denotified Tribes, also known as Vimukta Jati, are the tribes that were listed originally under the criminal tribe’s act of 1871, as criminal tribes and addicted to the systematic commission of non-bailable offences. Once a tribe become “Notified” as criminal, all its members were required to file with the local magistrats failing which they would be charged with a ‘crime’ under the (I.P.C). The Criminal Tribes Act was repealed in 1949 and thus ‘de-notified’ the tribal communities. The UN’s anti-discrimination body committee on the remove of racial discrimination asked India to repeal the Habitual Offenders Act (1952) and effectively resettled the denotified and nomadic tribes on 9 March 2007, for around 110 million people belonging to the denotified tribes, nomadic or semi-nomadic remote area in India.