7-Yr Jail for 14 for Stripping Rajasthan’s Pregnant Woman, 5-Yr Jail for 3 Women Involved

Jaipur: Seventeen persons including three women were convicted by a district court in Rajasthan for stripping a 20-year-old pregnant woman and parading her naked around a year back

The Pratapgarh Chief Judicial Magistrate on Saturday sentenced 14 men, including her husband, to seven-year imprisonment. The court remarked that it was a “heinous crime” similar to the one committed in Manipur.

The Pratapgarh Chief Judicial Magistrate also sentenced three women involved in the case to five-year imprisonment.

“Similar heinous crime was committed in Manipur. Such crimes cause emotional hurt to the women,” the judge said in the order.