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PUNISHMENTS PROVIDED UNDER OLD SIKHIM LAWS

The various kinds of punishments provided for persons found guilty of some
grave offences under these laws include imprisonment and other
punishments as barbarous as -

(i) gorging the eyes,

(ii) slitting the throat,

(iii) having the tongue cut out,

(iv) having the hands cut off,

(v) being thrown down from steep cliff,

(vi) being thrown into deep water.

Few available evidence of the trial by ordeal that was in practice and the
punishment of being flung down the steep cliff indicate that these laws i.e.,
'The Sikkim Laws' were in force and were being followed during the days of
Monarchy till as late as the early or middle part of the last century.

PAINTING DEPICTING THE PUNISHMENT OF HOLDING HOT STONE AND WALKING.

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