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Oct 2026
Policing Intimacy: A Critical Analysis of Commissionerate Police Powers and Same Sex Relationships in Urban India
The decriminalisation of consensual same-sex conduct in Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India (2018) removed the primary formal instrument through which police targeted sexual minorities in India. What it did not remove was the institutional architecture that had enabled that targeting for over a century and a half. Thi...
Shambhavi Upadhyay, R. Bhati
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