The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs has recommended retaining provisions related to carnal intercourse with minors and acts of bestiality under IPC Section 377 in the proposed Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). It suggested retaining the IPC provision on adultery but making it gender-neutral for the protection of the institution of marriage.
A parliamentary committee is likely to recommend re-criminalisation of the adultery law and criminalisation of non-consensual sex between men, women and/or trans members, as part of an overhaul of colonial-era criminal laws in India.
A parliamentary committee is likely to recommend re-criminalisation of the adultery law and criminalisation of non-consensual sex between men, women and/or trans members, as part of an overhaul of colonial-era criminal laws in India.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dealt queer people a devastating blow. Not only did the majority verdict refuse to recognise marriage as a fundamental right, it squarely laid the prerogative of any inclusion of queer people within new or existing matrimonial statutes, or any moves to secure the rights of people in queer relationships in any other form of union, upon Parliament. Yet, even within this fairly conservative majority verdict, there seems to be no mandatory injunction to our legislative bodies to act, let alone act within a given timeframe to ensure the protection of the law accrues to queer relationships.