Government should either amend S. 377 IPC or bring in a new provision to make Necrophilia and sadism punishable with life imprisonment: Karnataka High Court
Holding that commission of rape on a woman’s dead body would not attract Ss. 375 and 377, Penal Code, 1860, the Court pointed out that its high time for the Central Government to consider amending S. 377 or introduce a specific provision to address necrophilia, sadism.