A Thane court acquitted a Mira Road man and his female friend in a 2015 case involving allegations of repeated rape, unnatural sex and forced abortion. The court held that the prosecution failed to prove the charges after the complainant remained untraceable throughout the trial

Ahead of International Pride Month in June, we look back in time to the city’s LGBTQIA+ scene before Section 377 was read down. In this excerpt from a new anthology Queer India Now, writer-director Vikram Phukan recalls how those early parties were rife with hypermasculinity and risk