HIGH COURT APRIL 2025 WEEKLY ROUNDUP | CLAT 2025; Chhota Rajan Gang; Le Meredin’s License; KTR Rao’s Defamation Case; and more
A quick legal roundup to cover important stories from all High Courts this week.
Sodomy
‘Deserves some reprieve in matter of sentence’; Chhattisgarh HC reduces sentence of man convicted under S. 377 IPC for sodomizing his friend after watching porn
Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, overall evidence adduced by the prosecution, the mode and manner in which the incident had taken place, the Court opined that some reprieve in the matter of sentence deserved to be given to the convict who had been incarcerated since more than four years.
Supreme Court of Mauritius decriminalises sodomy between two consenting adult males
S. 250(1) of Criminal Code Act, 1838, is discriminatory in effect, and breaches Section 16 of the Constitution inasmuch as it criminalises the only natural way for homosexual men to have sexual intercourse.
Guj HC | Bail granted to a 16-year-old boy accused of having unnatural sex with a 13-year-old boy
Gujarat High Court: Samir Dave, J., granted bail to the accused while prohibiting him from accessing the society in which the claimed
‘To sexually violate innocent child within filial relationship descends on different path of depravity’: Del HC convicts father, friend under S. 377 IPC; emphasises on ingredients of ‘carnal intercourse against the order of nature’
Delhi High Court: The Division Bench of Siddharth Mridul and Anup Jairam Bambhani, JJ., while addressing a very unfortunate incident, involving sexual
P&H HC | “Nightmarish and traumatic”; HC denies bail in a case of sodomy committed to an 8-year-old child
Punjab and Haryana High Court: H.S. Madaan, J., rejected the bail application of the applicant accused of committing an act of sodomy
No wife will ever in defense plead an act of forced sodomy to allege cruelty against her husband; such act of ‘cruelty’ need not be backed by evidence: Uttaranchal HC
Uttaranchal High Court: A Division Judge Bench comprising of Sharad Kumar Sharma and Sudhanshu Dhulia, JJ. declared that denial of cruelty by