“A person who commits an offence affecting another person’s dignity by parading a woman naked through the village and, even at that time, striking her on the back with a wooden log, has committed an act that makes even the court feel ashamed to write about it,” a Panchmahals sessions court observed while convicting six persons, including five women, for assaulting a woman, tying her to a tree and parading her through a Gujarat village in 2024.

In its judgment dated November 7, Principal District and Sessions Judge N C Raval of Godhra held the six accused guilty of offences including voluntarily causing hurt, assault or criminal force against a woman with intent to outrage her modesty, disrobing, wrongful confinement, house trespass, intentional insult and criminal intimidation.…