Mohali, Feb. 14 -- A local court on Friday sentenced four people to one-year rigorous imprisonment for assaulting a woman, her husband and mother-in-law in September 2019.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs.10,000 each on the convicts, Ram Ratan, Parminder Singh, Tarandeep Singh and Komal.

They were found guilty under Sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 341 (wrongful restraint) and 506 (criminal intimidation of the Indian Penal Code.

They all ran shops in the same market where the complainant, Shilpa Thakur, and her family operated their businesses.

The complainant had gained possession of two shops at the front of the market through a writ petition fil...