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Encourgaing law commission notes on Sec. 377

In the run up to the Delhi High Court pronouncing its judgment in the constitutional challenege to Sec. 377 of the IPC, TOI highlights the views of various law commisions on the issue.

The most encouraging of these are the views of the 15th Law Commision headed by Justice B.P. Jeevan Reddy which sought to shift the focus to child abuse by deleting Sec. 377 and amending Sec. 375 to cover non-consensual sex in general:

After the changes effected by  us in  the  preceding  provisions (sections 375 to 376E), the only content left  in  section  377  is  having  voluntary carnal intercourse  with  any  animal. We may leave such persons to their just deserts.

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