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IPC Section 377, which criminalised non-consensual unnatural sex between two persons irrespective of their gender, has been removed from the new Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
The Indian Penal Code will be replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita as the government seeks to do away with the colonial-era criminal laws.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said a provision for capital punishment for committing the crime of mob lynching has been included in the new criminal laws.
The terror provision is also expanded to include the detention, kidnapping or abduction of a person to compel the Government of India, state governments or foreign governments to do or abstain from doing any activity.
The Centre has informed the Supreme Court that 28 states have appointed nodal officers in terms of directions in the 'Tehseen Poonawalla' guidelines in which the Court had issued guidelines to prevent...