Criminal Law News

Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) does not take into account non-consensual sexual assault inflicted on a man by a woman

The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill 2018 will help curb crimes against women, particularly rape, says PM Narendra Modi in his Mann ki Baat address

The road to a truly law-abiding society begins with exemplary punishment meted out to hate-mongers and lynch mobs, irrespective of where and under whose patronage they operate

The Yogi Adityanath government's order to withdraw the case against the chief minister was issued last week, just a day before a bill on criminal law was tabled in the state assembly

The Law Commission in its 262nd report has recommended abolishing the death penalty for all crimes other than terrorism-related offences and waging war

HC seeks centre's response to PIL challenging constitutional validity of amendments to criminal laws and provisions in Indian Penal Code, or IPC, dealing with rape and its punishment

Some estimates peg the number of those displaced by projects from the mid-1950s on to as much as 60 million with most mired in the 'backlog' of resettlement

In 2013, the court overturned a Delhi high court verdict that had set aside a 1860 law that criminalized consensual sex among homosexual adults

The many reasons why the colonial-era law has survived numerous attempts to get rid of it

In its three reports to the law ministry, the commission recommended repeal of 258 laws which are clogging the statute books as they have lost their relevance