The Works Ministry (KKR) has acknowledged the legal proceedings involving one of its civil servants, who was charged under ...

Haiti's penal code has not been modified in 185 years. Jean Robert Philippe contributed to this story. Related. Battle for Press Freedom in Haiti ...

The Senate passed the Penal Code that now moves to the Chamber of Deputies for approval. The present legislation closes on 24 July 2025 and reopens on 16 August 2025.

The Bombay High Court recently ruled that taunting a wife about her complexion would not amount to cruelty under Section 498A ...

The Penal Code review committee also called for marital immunity for rape to be removed and also for attempted suicide to be decriminalised. Read more at straitstimes.com.

There was a strong and urgent demand for amendment of the Penal Code with adequate provisions and deterrent penalties that could have the effect of arresting the increasing incidence of sexual abuse ...

The Malaysian Bar Council has discussed in detail the effects of sections 377A and 377B of the penal code with views that the law is discriminatory.

In 2003, Libyan authorities announced efforts to amend the country’s penal code, which came into effect in 1953 and had undergone only partial revisions since that time. The government formed ...

When S. 365 of the Penal Code dealing with the offence of carnal intercourse against the order of nature (anal sex and oral sex) with any man or woman and S. 365A dealing with the offence of gross ...