The Punjab & Haryana High Court has observed that the alleged victim's instigation to commit suicide would not have come "if the laws were suitably drafted and enacted to tackle and deal" with the situation, wherein the accused persons failed to return the deceased person's money. Stating that the pre-arrest bail cannot be rejected, the judge reasoned, "There are specific …
The alleged suicide of a 23-year-old man, hours after he was gang-raped by four men in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur district, has shed light upon the soon to be implemented Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, that does not include Section 377 or any other section that deals with rape of men and transgender persons. Police booked the four accused under Section 377 of …
