"No going back": the legal battles around Section 377 of the IPC An
This paper aims to briefly summarize the legal events that led to the historical decision held by the Indian Supreme Court in 2018 that declared the reading down of section 377 of the Indian Penal ...
The opposite of unnatural intercourse: understanding Section 377
2 Indian Penal Code 1860, S 377 reads as follows: '377. Unnatural offences. - Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
When love wins: Framing analysis of the Indian media's coverage of
Section 377 reads as follows: "Unnatural offences—Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall be liable to fine ("LGBT Section 377")."Although very few cases against consenting adults have ...
(PDF) . The Public Life of Sec. 377 of the IPC: the paradox of
Further, this paper theorises the symbolic politics around §377 as a case of synecdochic symbolism wherein a part is made to stand in for the whole, arguing that anti-§377 campaigns strategically subsumed forms of violence or discrimination that were unrelated or very tangentially related to §377 under the sign of the law. The paper explores ...
The Opposite of Unnatural Intercourse: Understanding S 377 ...
Abstract. S 377 has again become a hot topic of debate with the Supreme Court recently deciding to set up a Bench to hear challenges to its constitutionality. I focus upon one particular argument in the curative petition, which claims that the change in the definition of rape in s 375 of the IPC has an impact on what can be considered criminal ...
Full article: Corporate India after Section 377: haphazardness and
'No way back for corporate India' On 6 September 2018, the Supreme Court read-down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that prohibited 'carnal intercourse against the order of nature', which included various non-procreative acts and came to be symbolically invested as the law that criminalized homosexuality (Puri Citation 2016).The 2018 decision was the result of decades of activism ...
Social Acceptance and Section 377: A Case Study of ...
The Supreme Court of India recently decriminalized section 377 of the Indian Penal Code to outlaw the unfair violence and discrimination against transgender people. The paper argues that despite the legal acceptance of Section 377, the discrimination and social exclusion of transgender people continue in the Indian public sphere. The method of Interpretative Phenomenological Approach has been ...
(PDF) Sec 377: Battle for Identity
Purpose: The research paper has been written in order to analyze the impact of reading down the notorious section of Indian Penal Code, 1860 which being Section 377 which penalized every sexual act other than a heterosexual union even if consensual in the judgment given by the Supreme Court of India in Navjot Singh v.
Analysis -: Abrogation of Article 377
If you need immediate assistance, call 877-SSRNHelp (877 777 6435) in the United States, or +1 212 448 2500 outside of the United States, 8:30AM to 6:00PM U.S. Eastern, Monday - Friday. In this blog, the author will discuss my opinion on the Judgment of scrapping Section 377 of IPC. Section 377 of IPC dealt with the unnatural sexuality activity.
Proportionality, Judicial Reasoning, and the Indian Supreme Court
On the 11th of December 2013, a bench of two judges of the Indian Supreme Court reversed a Delhi High Court judgment reading down section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), a colonial-era sodomy law. The Court's judgment was heavily critiqued based on liberal conceptions of gender, identity and sexuality.
(PDF) On criminalisation and pathology: a commentary on the Supreme
The judgment delivered last week by the Supreme Court of India, upholding the constitutionality of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), overturns a judgment by the Delhi High Court in 2009 that decriminalised sexual activity between two
Decriminalization of Section 377: A Turning Point in Indian LGBTQ+
The Supreme Court's landmark judgment in Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India [1] decriminalizing consensual homosexual acts under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in September 2018 marked a historic turning point in the struggle for LGBTQ rights in India. Section 377, imposed during British colonial rule in 1861, criminalized "carnal ...
PDF Decriminalization of Section 377: The Attitude of the Indian Society
"Section 377 fails to take into account that consensual sexual acts between adults in private space are neither harmful nor contagious to society. On the contrary, Section 377 trenches a discordant note in respect of the liberty of persons belonging to the LGBT community by subjecting them to societal pariah and dereliction," they said.
India's Historic Gay-Rights Ruling and the Slow March of Progress
The first legal challenge to Section 377 emerged in 1994, from a campaign group demanding better treatment of people who were H.I.V.-positive. The Supreme Court snoozed on the petition for seven ...
PDF Unraveled Section 377 Ipc: a Review of Post Navtej Singh ...
Research Scholar, Department of Laws, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Abstract: ... 6 Section 377 of Indian Penal Code titled 'Unnatural Offences' and stated that "whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either ...
Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and Fundamental Rights: A Study
Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code is a section of the Indian Penal Code introduced in 1861 during the British rule of India. Modelled on the Buggery Act of 1533, it makes sexual activities "against the order of nature" illegal. On 6 September 2018, the Supreme Court of India ruled that the application of Section 377 to consensual homosexual sex between adults was unconstitutional ...
Recent Amendments in Section-377 of Indian Penal Code, 1860
This research paper deals with the recent amendments of section-377 and the critical analysis of the landmark verdict of Navtej Singh Johar & Ors. v. Union of India as well as its comparison with the earlier judgments of Suresh Kumar Kaushal v. Naz Foundation and Naz Foundation v. Govt.
Decriminalization of Section 377 IPC: Securing Right and Social
Hodges. National Legal Services Authority v Union of India, (2014) 5 SCC 438. Chinese FDI in India. The Lost Right to Compensation of Wrongfully Convicted Victims: A Critique. This article analyzes the decriminalization of section 377 in light of the social inclusion of the LGBTQ+ community in India.
A STUDY ON INDIAN LAW STUDENTS PANORAMA.
At the time of study, 97.50% of participants were aware of the sec 377 IPC .Of those who were aware, 43.8 % got their awareness from the media (i.e. news paper, internet, television etc.), and 55. ...
Impact of Section 377 on Indian Family Law
The main objective of this research paper is to analyze the impact of decriminalization of section 377 of IPC on Indian family laws. The recent judgment could bring a deadlock in certain upcoming cases involving the LGBTQ community with or without amendments could be difficult to apply the law. Impact of Section 377 on Indian Family Law
Decriminalisation of Section 377,IPC: Reforming Laws on Same-Sex
Decriminalisation of Section 377,IPC: Reforming Laws on Same-Sex Relationships in India - KAVISH KUMAR VERMA - IJFMR Volume 6, Issue 3, May-June 2024. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i03.20522 ... All research papers published on this website are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, ...
Section 377: Whose Concerns Does the Judgment Address?
The Supreme Court's recent judgment reading down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code is a landmark on many counts. But while we celebrate the judgment, it is important to remember that Section 377 meant different things to different groups of queer people. While for some it was the symbolic harm of their desire being designated as ...
SECTION 377 OF THE INDIAN PENAL CODE
The four major landmark judgments that have assigned the constitutionality of this section have been discussed in this research paper. This research paper will discuss in detail about the provisions of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and how they violate the fundamental rights of citizens of India. Further, the landmark judgments ...
Presenting Papers; Hosting Sectionals; Other Meetings, Conferences & Workshops. ... Transactions of the American Mathematical Society is devoted to longer research articles in all areas of pure and applied mathematics. ISSN 1088-6850 (online) ISSN 0002-9947 (print) ... Contents of Volume 377, Number 7 HTML articles powered by AMS MathViewer
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This paper aims to briefly summarize the legal events that led to the historical decision held by the Indian Supreme Court in 2018 that declared the reading down of section 377 of the Indian Penal ...
2 Indian Penal Code 1860, S 377 reads as follows: '377. Unnatural offences. - Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Section 377 reads as follows: "Unnatural offences—Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall be liable to fine ("LGBT Section 377")."Although very few cases against consenting adults have ...
Further, this paper theorises the symbolic politics around §377 as a case of synecdochic symbolism wherein a part is made to stand in for the whole, arguing that anti-§377 campaigns strategically subsumed forms of violence or discrimination that were unrelated or very tangentially related to §377 under the sign of the law. The paper explores ...
Abstract. S 377 has again become a hot topic of debate with the Supreme Court recently deciding to set up a Bench to hear challenges to its constitutionality. I focus upon one particular argument in the curative petition, which claims that the change in the definition of rape in s 375 of the IPC has an impact on what can be considered criminal ...
'No way back for corporate India' On 6 September 2018, the Supreme Court read-down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that prohibited 'carnal intercourse against the order of nature', which included various non-procreative acts and came to be symbolically invested as the law that criminalized homosexuality (Puri Citation 2016).The 2018 decision was the result of decades of activism ...
The Supreme Court of India recently decriminalized section 377 of the Indian Penal Code to outlaw the unfair violence and discrimination against transgender people. The paper argues that despite the legal acceptance of Section 377, the discrimination and social exclusion of transgender people continue in the Indian public sphere. The method of Interpretative Phenomenological Approach has been ...
Purpose: The research paper has been written in order to analyze the impact of reading down the notorious section of Indian Penal Code, 1860 which being Section 377 which penalized every sexual act other than a heterosexual union even if consensual in the judgment given by the Supreme Court of India in Navjot Singh v.
If you need immediate assistance, call 877-SSRNHelp (877 777 6435) in the United States, or +1 212 448 2500 outside of the United States, 8:30AM to 6:00PM U.S. Eastern, Monday - Friday. In this blog, the author will discuss my opinion on the Judgment of scrapping Section 377 of IPC. Section 377 of IPC dealt with the unnatural sexuality activity.
On the 11th of December 2013, a bench of two judges of the Indian Supreme Court reversed a Delhi High Court judgment reading down section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), a colonial-era sodomy law. The Court's judgment was heavily critiqued based on liberal conceptions of gender, identity and sexuality.
The judgment delivered last week by the Supreme Court of India, upholding the constitutionality of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), overturns a judgment by the Delhi High Court in 2009 that decriminalised sexual activity between two
The Supreme Court's landmark judgment in Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India [1] decriminalizing consensual homosexual acts under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in September 2018 marked a historic turning point in the struggle for LGBTQ rights in India. Section 377, imposed during British colonial rule in 1861, criminalized "carnal ...
"Section 377 fails to take into account that consensual sexual acts between adults in private space are neither harmful nor contagious to society. On the contrary, Section 377 trenches a discordant note in respect of the liberty of persons belonging to the LGBT community by subjecting them to societal pariah and dereliction," they said.
The first legal challenge to Section 377 emerged in 1994, from a campaign group demanding better treatment of people who were H.I.V.-positive. The Supreme Court snoozed on the petition for seven ...
Research Scholar, Department of Laws, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Abstract: ... 6 Section 377 of Indian Penal Code titled 'Unnatural Offences' and stated that "whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either ...
Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code is a section of the Indian Penal Code introduced in 1861 during the British rule of India. Modelled on the Buggery Act of 1533, it makes sexual activities "against the order of nature" illegal. On 6 September 2018, the Supreme Court of India ruled that the application of Section 377 to consensual homosexual sex between adults was unconstitutional ...
This research paper deals with the recent amendments of section-377 and the critical analysis of the landmark verdict of Navtej Singh Johar & Ors. v. Union of India as well as its comparison with the earlier judgments of Suresh Kumar Kaushal v. Naz Foundation and Naz Foundation v. Govt.
Hodges. National Legal Services Authority v Union of India, (2014) 5 SCC 438. Chinese FDI in India. The Lost Right to Compensation of Wrongfully Convicted Victims: A Critique. This article analyzes the decriminalization of section 377 in light of the social inclusion of the LGBTQ+ community in India.
At the time of study, 97.50% of participants were aware of the sec 377 IPC .Of those who were aware, 43.8 % got their awareness from the media (i.e. news paper, internet, television etc.), and 55. ...
The main objective of this research paper is to analyze the impact of decriminalization of section 377 of IPC on Indian family laws. The recent judgment could bring a deadlock in certain upcoming cases involving the LGBTQ community with or without amendments could be difficult to apply the law. Impact of Section 377 on Indian Family Law
Decriminalisation of Section 377,IPC: Reforming Laws on Same-Sex Relationships in India - KAVISH KUMAR VERMA - IJFMR Volume 6, Issue 3, May-June 2024. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i03.20522 ... All research papers published on this website are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, ...
The Supreme Court's recent judgment reading down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code is a landmark on many counts. But while we celebrate the judgment, it is important to remember that Section 377 meant different things to different groups of queer people. While for some it was the symbolic harm of their desire being designated as ...
The four major landmark judgments that have assigned the constitutionality of this section have been discussed in this research paper. This research paper will discuss in detail about the provisions of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and how they violate the fundamental rights of citizens of India. Further, the landmark judgments ...
Presenting Papers; Hosting Sectionals; Other Meetings, Conferences & Workshops. ... Transactions of the American Mathematical Society is devoted to longer research articles in all areas of pure and applied mathematics. ISSN 1088-6850 (online) ISSN 0002-9947 (print) ... Contents of Volume 377, Number 7 HTML articles powered by AMS MathViewer
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline "The rise of Chinese science" Leaders June 15th 2024 America seems immune to the world economy's problems
Figure 1: Modeling overview for the Apple foundation models. Pre-Training. Our foundation models are trained on Apple's AXLearn framework, an open-source project we released in 2023.It builds on top of JAX and XLA, and allows us to train the models with high efficiency and scalability on various training hardware and cloud platforms, including TPUs and both cloud and on-premise GPUs.