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The Parliamentary panel reviewing the three bills, introduced by Union Home Minister Amit Shah to replace the Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act, is likely to recommend reinstating Section 377 and criminalising 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 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...
Under Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code, which was the section dealing with adultery, a man who had consensual sexual intercourse with the wife of another man without that husband's consent will be punished for this offence..
The law ran into controversy because the concept of adultery targeted the act of sexual intercourse occurring between a married woman and a man other than her husband, in which case the man would be guilty whereas the wife was exempt from punishment..
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