an hour agoIndia Legalizes Homosexual Sex
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The Supreme Court of India ruled that homosexual sex is no longer a crime in this country. Today's historic decision abolishs a 2013 trial supporting a colonial-era law known as section 377, under which gay sex has been classified as an unnatural “”. This has been a [...]
The Supreme Court of India ruled that homosexual sex is no longer a crime in this country.
Today's historic decision abolishs a 2013 trial supporting a colonial-era law known as section 377, under which gay sex has been classified as an unnatural “”.
This was one of the oldest laws in the world to penalise homosexual sex and India has been reluctant to overturn it.
“The criminalisation of sensual relations is irrational, arbitrary and obviously unconstitutional”, justice chief Dipak Misra said, during reading the trial today in New Delhi.
