Sc On Gays

Speaking at the India Today Conclave, 2023, the 50th CJI also took questions on the controversy over the SC Collegium's reiteration of openly gay senior advocate Saurabh Kirpal for appointment as a judge of the Delhi High Court.

The UN's top human rights official cited the "landmark" decision by India's Supreme Court decriminalising consensual gay sex and urged more countries to bring their laws and practices in line with the fundamental equality of all their people.

Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra today indicated that the 150-year-old ban on gay sex may soon be gone. -We intend to rule, subject to arguments, that two consenting adults even if engaged in 'unnatural sex' will not be liable for prosecution for any offence,- Chief Justice Misra said. The observation of the court, which is hearing a bunch of pet...

A 150-year-old law that prescribes a life term in jail for gay sex is under spotlight as a five-judge Constitution Bench started hearing a bunch of petitions that call for its scrapping. The bench, however, said it would only examine the "correctness" of its verdict of 2013, which cancelled a Delhi High Court judgment that said the law criminalizin...

The media was today denied entry inside the President's house after opposition leaders met President Ram Nath Kovind on the SC/ST issue. Reacting to the incident, Congress President Rahul Gandhi said to the media "achche din aa gaye hain". It was an indirect attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 2014 election slogan of 'achche din' (good days).

A landmark Supreme Court judgment today which declared that privacy is a fundamental right of all Indians, has also brought cheer to the gay and LGBT communities. The court indicated that right to privacy is valid even in the context of Section 377 --- a law that criminalises what was once seen as unnatural sex. Right of privacy cannot be denied "e...

Congress parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor's bill to decriminalize gay sex in India could not be introduced in the Lok Sabha on Friday amid strong objections, with members of the ruling BJP and even some from his own party walking out. There was no formal whip to Ruling party law makers but they were present in large numbers to ensure his bill's intro...

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is left wondering about the consequences of the recent Supreme Court ruling that consensual sex between adults of the same gender is an offence.

Bollywood celebrities strongly criticised the Supreme Court's ruling that gay sex is a criminal offense on Wednesday.

Tell us where you stand on decriminalising gay sex in 12 days. This was the SC's order to the Centre.

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Centre on a petition challenging the Delhi HC judgement legalising gay sex.

Speaking at the India Today Conclave, 2023, the 50th CJI also took questions on the controversy over the SC Collegium's reiteration of openly gay senior advocate Saurabh Kirpal for appointment as a judge of the Delhi High Court.

The UN's top human rights official cited the "landmark" decision by India's Supreme Court decriminalising consensual gay sex and urged more countries to bring their laws and practices in line with the fundamental equality of all their people.

Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra today indicated that the 150-year-old ban on gay sex may soon be gone. -We intend to rule, subject to arguments, that two consenting adults even if engaged in 'unnatural sex' will not be liable for prosecution for any offence,- Chief Justice Misra said. The observation of the court, which is hearing a bunch of pet...

A 150-year-old law that prescribes a life term in jail for gay sex is under spotlight as a five-judge Constitution Bench started hearing a bunch of petitions that call for its scrapping. The bench, however, said it would only examine the "correctness" of its verdict of 2013, which cancelled a Delhi High Court judgment that said the law criminalizin...

The media was today denied entry inside the President's house after opposition leaders met President Ram Nath Kovind on the SC/ST issue. Reacting to the incident, Congress President Rahul Gandhi said to the media "achche din aa gaye hain". It was an indirect attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 2014 election slogan of 'achche din' (good days).

A landmark Supreme Court judgment today which declared that privacy is a fundamental right of all Indians, has also brought cheer to the gay and LGBT communities. The court indicated that right to privacy is valid even in the context of Section 377 --- a law that criminalises what was once seen as unnatural sex. Right of privacy cannot be denied "e...

Congress parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor's bill to decriminalize gay sex in India could not be introduced in the Lok Sabha on Friday amid strong objections, with members of the ruling BJP and even some from his own party walking out. There was no formal whip to Ruling party law makers but they were present in large numbers to ensure his bill's intro...

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is left wondering about the consequences of the recent Supreme Court ruling that consensual sex between adults of the same gender is an offence.

Bollywood celebrities strongly criticised the Supreme Court's ruling that gay sex is a criminal offense on Wednesday.

Tell us where you stand on decriminalising gay sex in 12 days. This was the SC's order to the Centre.

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Centre on a petition challenging the Delhi HC judgement legalising gay sex.