Sep 06, 2018, at 02:09 pm
New Delhi, Sept 6 (IBNS): As the Supreme Court of India on Thursday scripted history by moving to scrap the draconian Section 377 of Indian Penal Code that considered gay sex as a crime, a large number of Indians and the entire LGBTQ community and rights groups celebrated the judgement that came after a long struggle of the gay community.
It is not crime to be gay in India anymore: Supreme Court
Sep 06, 2018, at 11:59 am
New Delhi, Sept 6 (IBNS): In a historic judgement that can be called a milestone in the movement for gay rights in India, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that homosexuality is not a crime in the country anymore with the top court moving to scrap Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a British era law that treated the practice as unnatural.