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Whoever, identifying, calling, stigmatizing, defaming or accusing any person as witch, uses criminal force against that person and/or instigates or provokes others in doing so with intent to harm and/or to displace the person from the house, place or the property, lawfully occupied or owned by him/her or interferes with his/her rights over any land or premises or to coerce him/her to leave the area of which he/ she is a rightful owner, resident or a visitor, 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. 1,00,000/- but which may extend to Rs. 5,00,000/-. Punishment for using criminal force to outrage modesty.