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Brunei imposes stern new penal code, stoning for adultery, gay sex
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Bandar Seri Begawan [Brunei], Apr 3 (ANI): Brunei on Wednesday announced to enact a stern new penal code under which adultery and gay sex will be punishable by stoning to death, and amputations as a punishment for theft.
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Homosexuality, adultery punishable by death in Brunei
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Bandar Seri Begawan [Brunei], March 28 (ANI): Homosexuality and adultery will be punishable by death in the south-east Asian nation of Brunei after a new law proposing the same will come into effect from next week.
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President promulgates four Ordinances including one criminalising practice
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 21 (ANI): President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday promulgated four Ordinances including the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Second Ordinance, 2019, which declares “the practice of triple talaq to be void and illegal and also to make it an offence
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Virginity tests now a punishable offence in Maharashtra
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Pune (Mumbai) [India] Feb 07 (ANI): In a bid to end forced "virginity test" on brides in the nomadic Kanjarbhat community, Minister of State (MoS) Home Ranjeet Patil assured that all the cases of the forced test will be dealt as a sexual assault and cases will be registered in the section re
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Madhya Pradesh: Man arrested for giving triple talaq to wife
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Oct 25 (ANI): A man has been arrested in Madhya Pradesh for allegedly giving triple talaq to his wife. This comes a month after the central government passed an ordinance making instant triple talaq a punishable offence.
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SC reserves pleas seeking debarment of politicians charged with cognisable
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 29 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its order on a batch of petitions seeking a direction that politicians charged with cognisable offences shall be debarred from contesting polls, at the stage when the charges are framed by the Court provided the offence i
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Punjab Cabinet approves life imprisonment for sacrilege of religious text
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Aug 21 (ANI): Punjab Cabinet on Tuesday decided to bring an amendment to Indian Penal Code (IPC) to make sacrilege of all religious text punishable with life imprisonment.
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BJP leader files PIL to make bribery an offence
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jun 7 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Ashwini Upadhyay on Thursday filed a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) in the Supreme Court seeking to make bribery and other election-related offences cognizable and punishable with a minimum of two years of jail sentence.
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Law to make load shedding punishable may come soon: R.K. Singh
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 13 (ANI): Union Minister of State for Power and Renewable Energy R K Singh on Tuesday said that a draft law will soon be proposed in Parliament to make load shedding punishable with a hefty fine.
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Owaisi demands punishment for calling Indian Muslim 'Pakistani'
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 07 (ANI): The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday demanded that the central government bring out a law that would make calling Indian Muslim "Pakistani" a punishable offence.
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