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Why some divorce grounds apply only to wives: Supreme Court rejects a man's plea challenging the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea challenging a provision of the Hindu Marriage Act that allows on...- Kids tied to bed, chairs and poles: Four arrested in horrific Bibb County child sex trafficking ring reveal chilling detailsIn Bibb County, Alabama, a disturbing child sex trafficking ring has been exposed, involving children aged 2 to 10. Authorities arrested An...
- NMC revises guidelines, removes sodomy and lesbianism as unnatural sexual offencesThe National Medical Commission has updated its competency-based medical education curriculum, removing sodomy and lesbianism as "unnatural...
- National Medical Commission withdraws new MBBS curriculumThe National Medical Commission has withdrawn its recently issued Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) 2024 guidelines after facing ba...
- Delhi HC asks Centre to clear its stand on PIL challenging exclusion of provision for unnatural sex in new criminal lawsThe Delhi High Court directed the Centre to clarify its stance on a PIL challenging the absence of provisions equivalent to Section 377 in ...
- Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill scraps 'unnatural sex' offence, in a move away from colonial lawsThe Indian government has eliminated the British-era offence of 'unnatural sex' from its criminal legislation. Section 377 of the Indian Pe...
- Influential people used to get all kinds of favours in prison, claims ex-law officer of Tihar JailSpeaking to PTI, Sunil Gupta, who served as a law officer and spokesperson in Tihar from 1981 to 2016, claimed the "high and mighty people"...
- Work of law schools across globe helped SC verdict on section 377Some of the universities whose research papers found mention in the apex court's verdict include National University of Juridical Sciences ...
- Section 377 moored in gender stereotypes that reinforce sexism: Supreme CourtJustice Chandrachud quoted from Andrew Koppelman, to argue that the taboo against homosexuals “polices the boundaries that separate the dom...
- Apology pending, in former colonies of British empireBritish bureaucrats did modify the code. Almost uniquely in Sudan, some allowance for consent was allowed to Section 377.
- Section 377: Supreme Court rewrites history, homosexuality no longer a crimeA five judge bench unanimously diluted sec 377 to exclude all kinds of adult consensual sexual behaviour.
- IPC provisions that need to be done away with, tweakedSection 153B makes imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration a penal offence, punishable with three years and a fine.
- Malaysian top court reserves verdict in Anwar sodomy caseThe bench also extended Anwar's RM 20,000 (4 lakh rupees) bail with one surety and did not fix a date to deliver the ruling.
- Fresh agitation for Jan Lokpal from October: Anna HazareSocial activist Anna Hazare today said that he will launch a fresh agitation for Jan Lokpal bill from Delhi's Ramlila ground in October-Nov...
- Court rejects former Madhya Pradesh finance minister Raghavji's bail pleaThe bail application of disgraced former Madhya Pradesh finance minister Raghavji, who was arrested on sodomy charges was rejected.
- Evidence in ex-minister sexual abuse case not tampered: Shivraj Singh Chouhan"I am saying with full authority that the evidence in the case was not being tampered with," Chouhan told reporters.
- Anti-rape bill: GoM sorts out differences, recommends lowering of age for consensual sexThe age of consent for sex was one of the highly contentious provisions in the Bill, because of which it was referred by the Cabinet to the...
- Centre unlikely to oppose HC’s ruling on gaysThe Union Cabinet will on Thursday take a call on the Delhi High Court’s landmark judgement on Section 377 de-criminalising homosexual rela...
- Govt buys time to soothe anti-gay sentimentThe decision to ask the Union Cabinet to take a final call on the recent Delhi High Court judgement legalising adult gay sex may only help ...
- Anwar sworn in as lawmaker after poll victoryOpposition leader Anwar Ibrahim took his place on Thursday as a member of Malaysia's Parliament, a major step in his goal to topple a govt.
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