LEGAL ISSUES
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A sad day for India and for the world: American LGBT organisation All Out

Thursday, Dec 12, 2013, 13:30 IST | Place: Washington, DC | Agency: IANS A top American LGBT organisation with a membership of more than a million, described the Supreme Court’s decision as “a sad day for India and for the world”. Expressing concern over the Indian Supreme Court’s ruling restoring the ban on gay sex, Continue reading
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What does Section 377 of IPC criminalize?

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court, while re-criminalizing gay sex by upholding the constitutional validity of Section 377 of IPC, unsuccessfully searched for a “uniform test” to classify acts as ‘carnal intercourse against the order of nature’ which attracts a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. A bench of Justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya Continue reading
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Supreme Court upholds Section 377 criminalizing homosexual sex

Source New Delhi: In a blow to gay rights in India, the Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a high court verdict that had set aside a law framed in 1860 and decriminalized consensual sex among adult homosexual men. At the same time, the apex court put the ball in the government’s court, arguing that it Continue reading
