SC decriminalises gay sex under Section 377
News Nation Bureau 06 September 2018, 06:43 PM
The Supreme Court on Thursday decriminalises gay sex in the much-awaited verdict on a batch of pleas challenging a 158-year-old colonial law under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which criminalised consensual gay sex. "The five-judge Supreme Court bench, by unanimous decision, decriminalises Section 377," according to reports.
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