A Clear Comparison of India’s New Deceit Provision and the Former Rape Law Framework NEW DELHI: With the enforcement of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, India has replaced the Indian Penal Code, 1860, after more than 160 years. This shift has natur...
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Urban dating has changed fast, but criminal law may be changing faster. Section 69 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita is raising urgent questions about consent, promises, relationships, and legal risk in modern India. Read how this law could redefine dat...
Read MoreThe Court affirmed the apex court’s decision in Independent Thought vs. Union of India, which read down the marital rape exception for wives who are under 18. The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court recently held that sexual intercourse with ...
Read MoreThe Court observed that a promise of marriage does not automatically render consensual intercourse as rape unless it is proven that such a promise was false from the outset. The Allahabad High Court recently determined that a long-term consensual adu...
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New Delhi: Ruling that a promise of marriage cannot be held out as an inducement for engaging in sex over a protracted and indefinite period of time, the Delhi High Court has dismissed an appeal filed by a woman challenging the acquittal of an accus...
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The Bombay High Court last month dismissed an appeal filed by one Sunil Ramteke, a 28-year-old labourer from Nagpur, who was convicted under 376(2)(i)(j) read with Section 109 of the Indian Penal Code and under provisions of Protection of Children fr...
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