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Indian Penal Code

A new book explores the cultural, intellectual, and legal pre-history of India’s ‘blasphemy law’

J Barton Scott
· Apr 24, 2023 · 08:30 am
Marital rape hearing puts spotlight on other laws that reinforce patriarchal nature of marriage

Unnati Ghia Dhruva Gandhi
· Jan 27, 2022 · 09:27 am
Amit Shah asks states to submit inputs for proposed changes to penal code, CrPC, Evidence Act

Scroll Staff
· Nov 15, 2021 · 12:53 pm
Groping without ‘skin-to-skin contact’ does not amount to sexual assault under POCSO Act: Bombay HC

Scroll Staff
· Jan 24, 2021 · 05:09 pm
Punjab: 15-year-old brick kiln worker allegedly raped in Hoshiarpur

Scroll Staff
· Oct 27, 2020 · 10:40 am
Bombay HC upholds validity of clause that provides death penalty for repeat rape offenders

Scroll Staff
· Jun 03, 2019 · 12:05 pm
Section 377: Supreme Court to pronounce judgement on validity of law on Thursday

Scroll Staff
· Sep 05, 2018 · 05:21 pm
Crackdown on activists shows India needs to drop ‘criminal conspiracy’ as a penal offence

K Chandru
· Aug 31, 2018 · 05:00 pm
Berating the country cannot be treated as sedition, observes Law Commission

Scroll Staff
· Aug 31, 2018 · 08:24 am
Punjab Cabinet approves draft of bill that makes sacrilege punishable with life imprisonment

Scroll Staff
· Aug 21, 2018 · 08:52 pm
Supreme Court shouldn’t just decriminalise homosexuality. Its verdict must also foster inclusion

Namita Bhandare
· Jul 20, 2018 · 08:00 am
Supreme Court reserves judgement on Section 377 as hearing challenging archaic law ends

Scroll Staff
· Jul 17, 2018 · 01:24 pm
Supreme Court to begin hearing pleas challenging law that criminalises homosexuality

Scroll Staff
· Jul 10, 2018 · 08:06 am
Six new petitions in Supreme Court seek quashing of law that criminalises homosexuality

Scroll Staff
· Apr 27, 2018 · 10:49 pm
‘The dead also have dignity’: Supreme Court asks why media often names rape victims

Scroll Staff
· Apr 25, 2018 · 03:59 pm
Centre wants stricter Supreme Court guidelines on female genital cutting, an offence under IPC

Scroll Staff
· Apr 21, 2018 · 12:27 pm
Rape laws: Why is sexual violence against India’s transgender community not being taken seriously?

Ankita Ramgopal
· Mar 03, 2018 · 06:30 pm
Telangana tightens law against dissent, to allow arrests, cases without court nod

Scroll Staff
· Jan 29, 2018 · 01:56 pm
Supreme Court refers PIL against law on adultery to a Constitution bench

Scroll Staff
· Jan 05, 2018 · 04:46 pm
Child marital rape is now illegal. It is time to criminalise adult marital rape too

Sruthisagar Yamunan
· Oct 12, 2017 · 12:30 pm