Indian Penal Code
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Berating the country cannot be treated as sedition, observes Law Commission
Scroll Staff
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Punjab Cabinet approves draft of bill that makes sacrilege punishable with life imprisonment
Scroll Staff
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Supreme Court shouldn’t just decriminalise homosexuality. Its verdict must also foster inclusion
Namita Bhandare
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Supreme Court reserves judgement on Section 377 as hearing challenging archaic law ends
Scroll Staff
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Supreme Court to begin hearing pleas challenging law that criminalises homosexuality
Scroll Staff
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Six new petitions in Supreme Court seek quashing of law that criminalises homosexuality
Scroll Staff
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‘The dead also have dignity’: Supreme Court asks why media often names rape victims
Scroll Staff
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Centre wants stricter Supreme Court guidelines on female genital cutting, an offence under IPC
Scroll Staff
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Rape laws: Why is sexual violence against India’s transgender community not being taken seriously?
Ankita Ramgopal
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Telangana tightens law against dissent, to allow arrests, cases without court nod
Scroll Staff
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Supreme Court refers PIL against law on adultery to a Constitution bench
Scroll Staff
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Child marital rape is now illegal. It is time to criminalise adult marital rape too
Sruthisagar Yamunan
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Video: Supreme Court rules sex with minor wife is rape and opens the door for marital rape law
Smitha Nair
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Video: Five claims commonly made to argue against the criminalisation of marital rape
Smitha Nair
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Marriage is not an exception when defending sex offences against children, says Supreme Court
Scroll Staff
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Watch: The law says you can be arrested for ‘looking poor’ in India
Scroll Staff
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Suicide attempts are no longer punishable by law. Here’s why that’s a good thing
Avantika Mehta
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Forced counselling, moralising: The difficulties of filing dowry harassment cases under Section 498A
Aarefa Johari
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There are 2.8 lakh undertrials in Indian prisons – equal to the population of Barbados
Sneha Alexander, Indiaspend.com
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Kamlesh Tiwari's arrest for anti-Prophet remark shows why India needs to revisit colonial-era laws
Alok Prasanna Kumar