Section 8 • THE ASSAM WITCH HUNTING (PROHIBITION, PREVENTION AND PROTECTION) ACT, 2015
Section 8. Punishment for using criminal force to outrage modesty
Whoever, identifying, calling, stigmatizing, defaming or accusing any person as witch, assaults or uses criminal force against a person to remove or causes to remove clothes from his/her body and demonstrates and parades him/her naked or with such scanty clothes that fail to protect his/her modesty, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than five years but which may extend to ten years and with fine which shall not be less than Rs. 10,000/- but which may extend to Rs. 50,000/-.
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