New Delhi: Adultery is no longer a crime in India though “without a shadow of doubt” can be grounds for divorce, the Supreme Court said on September 27, junking a 158-year law that punished a man for an affair but not the woman, treating her as her husband’s property. “TheContinue Reading

By Dr. George Jacob Kochi: The section 377 of the Indian Penal Code of 1861 criminalized sexual activities ‘against the order of nature’. People who choose to adopt sexual tendencies ‘against the order of nature’ are bracketed under a community popularly known as LGBT, which hogged the limelight through theirContinue Reading

New Delhi: Female genital mutilation has numerous health hazards associated with it and amounts to violation of right to life and dignity of a woman, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra observed on Monday. The Chief Justice made the oral observation while hearing a PIL (public interest litigation) petitionContinue Reading