New Delhi, Dec 11 – India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled gay sex between consenting adults is an offence, overturning an earlier verdict by the Delhi High Court decriminalising homosexuality.
A two-judge bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya gave the order to uphold Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code under which gay sex is a crime in this country, Xinhua news agency reported.
The apex court’s order came in the wake of petitions by anti-gay right activists, social and religious organisations who had appealed against the Delhi High Court’s 2009 judgement decriminalising gay sex.
The Delhi High Court has ruled that gay sex between two consenting adults in private is not an offence, overturning the colonial-era law under Section 377 of the Penal Code.
– Bernama
