● Removed from BNS
Section 377 IPC punished "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" with imprisonment up to life or 10 years and fine. In Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India (2018), the Supreme Court read it down to decriminalise consensual acts between adults, leaving it applicable to non-consensual acts, minors and bestiality.
The BNS contains no equivalent of Section 377. Non-consensual sexual offences against women are covered by the rape provisions (BNS 63–64), and offences against children by the POCSO Act.
Omitted entirely. Commentators have noted this leaves a gap for non-consensual acts against adult male victims, which no BNS provision squarely covers.
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