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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

India to review ruling on law criminalising homosexuality

Indian human rights activists march for sexual freedom in 2006
Latest chapter in legal battle between social and religious conservatives and gay community over law passed by British
India’s supreme court has agreed to re-examine a previous judgment that upheld a law criminalising homosexuality, offering hope to gay rights organisations that have been holding vigils and demonstrations in Delhi.
A panel of three judges said the ruling in 2013 would be revisited by a larger bench of judges.
“It is definitely a step forward,” lawyer Anand Grover said as activists gathered outside the courtroom cheered.
The 2013 judgment reinstated colonial-era legislation that in effect outlawed gay sex and stunned many in India, overturning decades of slow progress andprompting protests.
The referral to a large bench of judges is the latest chapter in a long-running legal battle between India’s social and religious conservatives and the gay community over the law passed by the British in the 1860s.

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