Gender and Sexuality

MP: Beautiful woman ‘distracts, rape may follow’ says Cong MLA, outrage follows

Intemperate and insensitive remarks by Congress MLA Phool Singh Baraiya on women, rape and women from Dalit and Adivasi communities have left the Congress shame-faced on the eve of LoP Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the state

Women and children targeted at public toilets, Mumbai POCSO Court suggests appointing women security guards

The court’s observations came in connection with a recent judgment convicting an accused for sexually assaulting a minor girl

Delhi HC demands updates on separate toilets for Delhi’s trans community

Separate toilets are a basic human right, says petitioner appealing to the Delhi High Court

Same-sex marriage: Delhi HC asks Central Government to respond to the plea for live-streaming of proceedings

Multiple petitions filed about different aspects of the recognition of wider rights of the LGBTQIA community

Still no move on marital rape by the Centre

Despite two High Courts ruled against the phenomenon of marital rape, the Centre sits on the fence

Sharp spike in cases of child marriage and child trafficking in 2020!

The number of under-age marriages jumped from 523 to 785 within a year, this even as Covid-19 brought about unprecedented economic hardships on families

BMC reports only 43 vasectomies in 2021-22

Blaming the decline on the Covid-19 pandemic, authorities said they will address the issue with new vigour

In rare circumstances woman can acquire caste of husband: K’taka HC

Court was examining a case where a woman married to an ST man was removed from her position in the gram panchayat as the seat was reserved for an ST candidate

HC grants bail to former IPS officer Amitabh Thakur

Arrested on August 27, 2021, after a rape victim died by suicide, accusing him of protecting accused, BSP MP Atul Rai

Punjab and Haryana HC expands scope of Sec 377 IPC and “sexual intent”

The Court held that penetration was not a necessary ingredient for invoking the offence and the sexual intent was an imperative aspect

Mumbai court rejects bail plea of  Bu**i Bai app case accused Vishak Kumar Jha

Citizens for Justice and Peace, and human rights organisations had written to Mumbai Police Commissioner, urging a deeper probe into the matter 

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