India to criminalise homosexuality, adultery again? Parliament Panel may recommend reinstating Section 377: Report

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Adultery to the Indian government, according to media reports. An India Today report citing people familiar with the developments, have said that the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs has formulated a draft report which recommends bringing back the Adultery law, and criminalising non-consensual sex between women, men, or transperson. The report also said that despite requests of Hindi and English names, the panel is likely to recommend retaining the ‘Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita’.

The report citing people familiar with the developments also said the draft report also suggests reducing the punishment for conducting unauthorised protests or demonstrations from the current two years to a maximum of one year. Additionally, the committee proposes an increase in the punishment for cases of death due to negligence, from the current six months to five years. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs, headed by Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Brij Lal, is reviewing three bills -- The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, and the Bharatiya Sakshya Bill, 2023--introduced in the parliament by Amit Shah on the last day of the Monsoon session.

Section 377 of the British colonial penal code criminalized all sexual acts "against the order of nature". The law was used to prosecute people engaging in oral and anal sex along with homosexual activity. This law was struck down in 2018 by the Supreme Court of India.