Bhopal, June 27 -- A Muslim woman judge was relentlessly targeted by the Hindutva community after sentencing 14 cow vigilantes to life imprisonment, accused of the mob lynching of a truck driver in 2022.

Describing the assault as "extremely brutal," Additional District and Sessions Judge Tabassum Khan, on June 12, convicted the 14 accused individuals and held that they had formed an unlawful assembly with the common objective of attacking the victim.

The case pertains to the mob lynching of Nazir Ahmed, who, on the intervening night of August 2, 2022, was transporting cattle from Madhya Pradesh to Maharashtra when he was brutally beaten to death in Barakhar village.

Nearly four years later, the 14 accused were sentenced to life impriso...