The judgment was pronounced by a special court for hearing cases under the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The four accused Chhote Lal , Hansraj Gurjar , Ashok Kumar Gurjar and Indraj Singh Gurjar were charged under sections of the SC/ST Act and the Information and Technology Act in the FIR, such as 147 (rioting), 149 (unlawful assembly), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 327 (Voluntarily causing hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal act), 341 (wrongful restraint), 342 (wrongful confinement), 354B (outraging the modesty of a woman), 365 (Kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person), 376D (gang rape), 384 (extortion), 395 (dacoity) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code. The fifth accused Mukesh Gurjar, 28, was charged under different sections of the IT Act for circulating the video. The sixth accused who was a minor at the time of the incident is being tried separately in the district and sessions court.