The Supreme Court urges the Government of India to rethink the Pocso Act's application to consensual adolescent relationships. The court su...

The Calcutta High Court ruled that a consensual physical relationship between married adults is not a criminal offense, even if the relatio...

The Supreme Court addressed the growing trend of criminalizing failed consensual relationships. The court quashed a rape case filed by a wo...

The Supreme Court quashed a rape and cheating FIR against a man, highlighting a concerning trend of criminalizing soured consensual relatio...

India's Bombay High Court has suggested that the country's parliament should consider reducing the age of consent for adolescents to enter ...

This comes after Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud asked lawmakers on Saturday to address the “growing concern” on the criminalisation ...

The issue of Section 377 was first raised by NGO Naaz Foundation, which had approached the Delhi High Court in 2001.

Judge Malhotra was part of a 5-judge bench that held Section 377 of IPC to be in violation of the constitutional right to equality and dign...

Writing a 181-page verdict, Justice Chandrachud said the human instinct to love was "caged" by constraining the physical manifestation of t...

The CJI held that Section 377 in its present form violated Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution that deals with freedom of speech and expre...

A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra had reserved its verdict on July 17 after hearing various stakeholders,...

SC said LGBTQ community faced stigma because of the criminality attached to consensual same-sex relationship.

Swamy said allowing it would lead to setting up of gay bars which some American investors wanted to do in India.

Under Section 377 of the IPC, consensual sexual acts between members of the same sex are an offence entailing punishment up to life term.

The Supreme Court had in December last year upheld the colonial-era law, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which punishes those found g...

"We strongly criticise the IPC Section 377. We want Tamil Nadu government to support us and make amendments in the Section.... ", member of...

A bench of justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya set aside the 2009 Delhi High Court judgement which had decriminalised gay sex.