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Whoever, identifying, calling, stigmatizing, defaming or accusing any person as witch,- (i) subjects that person to any forms of torture including acts of stoning, hanging, stabbing, dragging, public beatings, burns, cutting/burning of hair, forced hair shavings, pulling of teeth out, cutting of nose or other body-parts, blackening of face, whipping, branding with hot objects or use of any other blunt or sharp weapons or objects. (ii) forces that person to perform public acts of humiliation or to eat human excrement or to drink urine or to drink or eat inedible or obnoxious substances or to socially ostracize or to stigmatize for life or to prohibit to participate in auspicious occasions, to curtail 4 movements and employment or subjects him/her to taunts, slurs and other verbal abuses, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than five years but which may extend to ten years with fine which shall not be less than Rs. 50,000/- but which may extend to Rs. 1,00,000/- Punishment for damaging reputation, dignity etc.