8 Nagaland women get year’s jail for publicly humiliating woman
The Hindu
Kangaroo court had declared victim a violator of customary laws for alleged extra-marital affair
GUWAHATI: A court in Nagaland’s Tuensang district has sentenced a group of eight women to a year in prison for publicly humiliating a woman three years ago. The eight had chopped off the woman’s hair, stripped and paraded her naked on the road in 2018 after a kangaroo court subscribing to tribal customary laws found her guilty of having an extra-marital affair. The court of judicial magistrate first class also fined the group ₹3,000 for the offence under various sections of the Indian Penal Code.More Related News