Ill-treat in a sentence as a verb

Does it mean you can ill-treat them without consequence ? No. If you do so, you will be born in that caste in a next-life and suffer the same oppression they're facing now.

Ill-treat definitions

verb

treat badly; "This boss abuses his workers"; "She is always stepping on others to get ahead"

See also: mistreat maltreat abuse ill-use step