The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs has recommended to the government to retain IPC section 377 provisions related to carnal intercourse with minors and acts of bestiality in the ...
Among the three laws replacing India’s centuries-old criminal laws proposed by Union home minister Amit Shah in the ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament was the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, ...
The Delhi high court has held that unnatural sexual intercourse by a husband with his wife is not a punishable offence under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, ...
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) member SC Sinha today pitched for a “suitable modification” in section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) that criminalises consensual sexual acts between ...
Ever since the 2018 judgement, I feel more therapists as well as queer people have become informed about LGBTQIA+ rights. (Photo: Mercedes Mehling via Unsplash) On 6 September 2018, in a landmark ...
The alleged suicide of a 23-year-old man, hours after he was gang-raped by four men in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur district, has shed light upon the soon to be implemented Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, that ...
No case is made out under IPC section 377 (unnatural sex) between a husband and wife as there is no bar on them from going beyond conventional sex, Madhya Pradesh high court has ruled, while quashing ...