While quashing a 498-A IPC case registered by a woman against her husband and in-laws the Karnataka High Court said “The law ...

The Madhya Pradesh High Court, in a husband's petition seeking quashment of FIR, observed that while forced unnatural sex by ...

Among the three laws replacing India’s centuries-old criminal laws proposed by Union home minister Amit Shah in the ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament was the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, ...

Karnataka HC rules strangers cannot be charged under IPC Section 498A, limiting cruelty claims to relatives only.

Punjab-Haryana High Court commutes death sentence of man in 5-year-old girl rape-murder case, acquits mother for trying to ...

Wife said her family gave Rs 4.5 lakh cash, 9 tola gold at the time of marriage but after 8 years of marriage the husband ...

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on home affairs has recommended to the government to retain IPC Section 377 provisions related to carnal intercourse with minors and acts of bestiality in the ...

NEW DELHI: In what may result in the first review of the new Indian criminal codes, the Centre has started discussions on the misuse of Sections 85 and 86 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) that ...

Quashing a case against 13 men who were arrested for allegedly indulging in obscene acts with women in a flat, the Bombay HC said that such actions in pvt places are not a criminal offence Quashing a ...

Raipur: Chhattisgarh high court has observed that not every abduction of a minor female should be construed as an offence under IPC section 366, which pertains to the kidnapping with the intent to ...