The Supreme Court today said that a larger group of judges would re-consider and examine the constitutional validity of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), a law that criminalises sexual ...

The Supreme Court of India on September 6, 2018 in a historic judgement decriminalised homosexuality in India. A five-judge constitution bench led by Chief Justice Dipak Misra and comprising Justices ...

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the Act which replaced the Indian Penal Code, 1860, introduced a new offence which had not been codified in any previous statute—namely, sexual intercourse ...

The Supreme Court, while re-criminalizing gay sex by upholding the constitutional validity of Section 377 of IPC, unsuccessfully searched for a “uniform test” to classify acts as ‘carnal intercourse ...

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, ...