Sodomy
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Sodomy, is non coital, cornal copulation with a member of the same or opposite sex, AIR 1962 Kant 46 (48). [(Indian) Divorce Act, 1869, s. 10**]
1. Oral or anal copulation between humans, esp. those of same sex 2. Oral or anal copulation between human and animal; bestiality, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1396.
Sodomy, the crime against nature, punishable until 1891 by a minimum term of ten years' penal servitude; prescribed by s. 61 of the Offences against the Person Act, 1861, but the effect of the Penal Servitude Act, 1891, s. 1, sub-s. 2, appears to be that imprisonment may be substituted, though this particular crime is not expressly mentioned in that Act.
1. Oral or anal copulation between humans, esp. those of same sex 2. Oral or anal copulation between human and animal; bestiality, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1396.
Sodomy, the crime against nature, punishable until 1891 by a minimum term of ten years' penal servitude; prescribed by s. 61 of the Offences against the Person Act, 1861, but the effect of the Penal Servitude Act, 1891, s. 1, sub-s. 2, appears to be that imprisonment may be substituted, though this particular crime is not expressly mentioned in that Act.
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