All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” This biting Orwellian satire was intended to expose the ...

Penguin India has agreed to remove historian Wendy Doniger’s book, The Hindus: An Alternative History, from stories in India and destroy all remaining copies in the country after four years of ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalises cruelty towards women by their husbands or in-laws, does not violate the right to equality guaranteed ...

This paper seeks to determine the extent and manner in which the proscription of "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 makes criminals out ...

India's British-drafted penal code includes some highly problematic provisions, which define "sedition" far too vaguely, criminalize homosexual acts, and allow for the prosecution of adultery (but ...

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA) came into effect from July 1.(HT_PRINT) The first FIR under India's new ...

(London)—India’s landmark Supreme Court decision that criminalizing consensual same-sex conduct is unconstitutional is a major victory for human rights and the LGBT people’s rights to privacy and ...