Maneka Guruswamy, the lawyer who filed a writ petition on behalf of eminent citizens in the Supreme Court tells NDTV that she was honoured to fight this case. Ms Guruswamy, whose quote in the Supreme Court, "How strongly must we love to withstand [these] terrible wrongs", went viral last July says the persistence of the LGBT community resulted in this day. She called the verdict a victory for constitutional morality.