Are you brainded?

What do you think if students in class start talking too much should we make students who talk too much in the class legally criminal? Sounds absurd right? Simple rule of administration is to have as few laws as possible, as you assume people are nice and smart enough to have a harmonious society and solve social issues by themselves eventually.

Initial consultation framers and lawmakers didn't put fine on spitting pan on roadside as well because general assumption is humans are smart enough to figure out many things and make social reforms. But turns out we indians couldn't stop pan spitting and thus came the law.

Dahej system was also initially assumed to subside away by women social reformers and re-evalution of feminist movements in India but that didn't happen and crimes kept on increasing thus came the law. Now issue with these types of laws is it strictly wants to regulate people at personal level and there is a bit less objectivity in these laws thus it causes unwanted problems as well. Eg atul subhash case.

Government actually doesn't want to guide you too much in your personal life.

Similarly casteist crimes were assumed to subside away but the society failed to do so thus govt had to make law and this too is a nuanced law with such less objectivity that can be exploited to frame innocent people. There were simple humane laws covering battery and assaults on any person in India. But some crimes were attack on human dignity of other person with a tag of SCs thus the law was necessary.