Top Law News The Homosexuality debate: Rights versus morality April 15, 2014 / April 15, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The apex court of India set aside the Delhi High Court’s verdict, which had decriminalised gay sex among consenting adults in private in 2009, on Wednesday and left gay rights activists and LGBT community shocked and dismayed. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of the penal provision making gay sex an offence punishable with […] Read more » gay rights activists gay sex homosexuality homosexuals LGBT community news Supreme Court todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Religious leaders welcome SC verdict on gay sex December 31, 2013 / December 31, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Heads of various religious group Sunday welcomed the decision of the Supreme Court criminalising homosexuality and said the verdict was in line with eastern traditions and India’s moral values and religious teachings. The apex court’s Dec 11 verdict declared homosexuality an offence. “The decision of the Supreme Court on Article 377 is not only in […] Read more » Article 377 gay sex homosexuality news Supreme Court todays news todays top news Top news
High Profile Cases Supreme Court rebuffs government for flip-flop on homosexuality February 28, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday rebuffed an attempt by the government to distance itself from submissions made by Additional Solicitor General P.P. Malhotra that homosexuality was immoral. An apex court bench of Justices G.S. Singhvi and S.J. Mukhopadhyay said it could not accept new submissions of the government that there was nothing wrong with a Delhi […] Read more » homosexuality Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice S.J. Mukhopadhyay Section 377 Supreme Court
Top Law News Activists slam government’s stand on gay sex February 24, 2012 / February 24, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The union home ministry’s opposition in the Supreme Court Thursday to decriminalising gay sex has drawn flak from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) activists who said the move is “irresponsible and illogical”. “I think it is irresponsible, illogical to come up with such opinions at this time. The ministry is ignoring what the Delhi […] Read more » homosexuality Section 377 Supreme Court union home ministry
Top Law News Scope of penal provision on gay sex wide: Supreme Court February 17, 2012 / February 17, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Scope of penal provision on gay sex wide: Supreme Court The Supreme Court Thursday said the scope of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was wide and could not be limited to holding homosexuality or sex between the same sex as being against the order of nature and criminal. The apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya said that […] Read more » homosexuality Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya Supreme Court
