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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/- Punishment for some forms of torture.