Section 377
Goat's rape prompts PETA India appeal to ensure bestiality still crime under Sec 377
Group also urges Centre to amend prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, to include harsher punishments for violations.
Sexuality and Criminality
Child sexual abusers are mostly close relatives and persons known to the children and in whom the children repose trust.
Self-styled godman forces men into unnatural sex, arrested in Maharashtra
Asif Noori (38) was arrested from a neighbouring district and brought on Sunday night, Parbhani Superintendent of Police Dilip Zalake said.
Supreme Court reserves verdict on pleas against Section 377
Justice Nariman said if prostitution is licensed then all health parameters and concerns would be met.
SC reserves verdict on pleas seeking decriminalisation of Section 377
A five-judge constitution bench headed by CJI Dipak Misra concluded hearing the arguments on the contentious issue after four days.
Eradicate Section 377, says industry
Filmmaker Onir is grateful to the government for not impeding the petition.
Once criminality of Section 377 quashed, stigma against gay sex will go: SC
CJI quashed mental stigma attached to homosexuality and cleared that even psychiatrists have established that it is not a mental illness.
Section 377 needs to go: A ‘Victorian relic’ has no place in today’s India
The court left it to Parliament to consider deleting the provision.
CJI Dipak Misra hints in favour of decriminalisation of Section 377
Once the court decriminalises Section 377, then the discrimination faced by the LGBT community in employment will vanish, CJI said.
Is homosexuality crime? Centre says it will ‘leave decision to wisdom of SC’
'We leave it to the wisdom of the court,' Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told Supreme Court.