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Tipu Jayanti: RSS leader, journalist booked for religious abuse
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Kodagu (Karnataka) [India], Nov 13 (ANI): The Karnataka police have filed a case against five people, including an RSS leader and a local journalist in the Kodagu district under Section 295(A) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for religious abuse.
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SC refuses to hear plea seeking gender neutrality in rape law
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 12 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a petition filed by the Criminal Justice Society of India, seeking a direction to review and amend the present rape laws gender neutral.
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Chikkodi fake currency racket: NIA nabs absconding accused Shukruddin Shek
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Malda (West Bengal) [India], Oct 29 (ANI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested absconding accused Shukruddin Shek from Malda in the Chikkodi Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) case under Sections 489B, 489C, 120B and 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
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342 arrested so far in violence over Sabarkantha rape: Police
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], Oct 7 (ANI): As many as 42 cases have been registered under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 342 people have been arrested across the state in lieu of the attacks on non-Gujarati people, Gujarat Director General of Police (DGP) said on Sunda
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NIA convicts 4 for smuggling fake currency notes
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], Oct 5 (ANI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday convicted four persons, accused of damaging the monetary stability of India by way of smuggling and circulation of the fake Indian currency notes and thereby committing a terrorist act under relevant Sectio
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British High Commission celebrates ruling on Section 377
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 04 (ANI): The British High Commission on Thursday hosted a reception to celebrate the recent Supreme Court of India ruling on Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), wherein it decriminalised homosexuality.
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Punjab CM's morphed video goes viral, case lodged
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Sept 29 (ANI): The Cyber Cell of Punjab Police has registered cases under various sections of Sections 67 of Information Technology Act 2008, and Sections 500 and 505 of the Indian Penal Code, after a morphed and dubbed video of Punjab Chief Minister Captain A
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Adultery may not be cause of unhappy marriage, but can be the result: SC
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 28 (ANI): The Supreme Court of India on Thursday while striking down the law on adultery - Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 497 - said that treating it as an offence would tantamount to punishing people who are unhappy in marital relationships.
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'SC verdict on adultery requires more clarity'
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 27 (ANI): Congress leader Renuka Choudhary on Thursday hailed Supreme Court's verdict of scraping of the pre-Independence provision of adultery in the Indian Penal Code (IPC). However, she felt more clarity was needed.
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'SC verdict on adultery law upholds human dignity'
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 27 (ANI): Hailing the Supreme Court's verdict on adultery, Raj Kallishwaram, the lawyer of the petitioner in the case, on Thursday said that the top court struck down the penal provision to maintain the human dignity.
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Adultery a ground for divorce, but not a crime: SC
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 27 (ANI): Terming the two laws on adultery – Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 497 -- as unconstitutional and a colonial rule, the Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the two sections. While decriminalising adultery, the court also struck down section 1
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Supreme Court strikes down adultery law
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 27 (ANI): In a majority judgement, the Supreme Court on Thursday decriminalised adultery by striking down Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), terming it unconstitutional. The court observed that mere adultery cannot be a crime unless it attracts the scope of
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