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Thursday, September 6, 2018

Section 377 verdict LIVE: SC decriminalises gay sex, LGBT community celebrates historic day Live updates of the Supreme Court verdict on petitions challenging constitutional validity of section 377

  • Sep 06, 01:57 PM (IST)
    LGBTQ activist Anjali Nazia said the Supreme Court had paved way for bigger judgements ahead.
    "We were granted a basic human right today and we can't express just how happy we are," Nazia told PTI.
    Describing the verdict as a landmark, Anjan Joshi, member of the Society for People, Awareness, Care and Empowerment (SPACE), said it would be help them in their quest for equality.
    "It is a start. We know we have a long way to go in terms of right to adoption, right to marriage but it is a very welcome beginning," Joshi said.
  • Sep 06, 01:24 PM (IST)
  • Sep 06, 01:02 PM (IST)
    UN in India welcomes Supreme Court ruling
    United Nations in India has welcomed the Supreme Court ruling.
    “Sexual orientation and gender expression form an integral part of an individual’s identity the world over, and violence, stigma and discrimination based on these attributes constitute an egregious violation of human rights,” the organisation has said in a statement.
    “The UN in India sincerely hopes that the court’s ruling will be the first step towards guaranteeing the full range of fundamental rights to LGBTI persons,” it added.
  • Sep 06, 12:59 PM (IST)
    “I am pleased to welcome the Supreme Court decision to decriminalise consensual acts of adults in private. In this country, we have allowed the government to interfere in private lives of people, to discriminate against people on basis of sexual orientation, but the Supreme Court stood up for equal treatment of citizens,” Member of Parliament and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said.
    The Lok Sabha had in 2016 voted against the introduction of a private member’s Bill moved by Tharoor which sought decriminalising homosexuality.
  • Sep 06, 12:46 PM (IST)
    History owes an apology to the LGBT community: Justice Malhotra
    Justice Indu Malhotra said, “History owes an apology to members of the LGBT community and their family members for the ostracisation and persecution they faced because of society's ignorance that homosexuality is a natural trait, its penal suppression infringes a host of fundamental rights.”
  • Sep 06, 12:42 PM (IST)
    The state has no business to get in controlling the private lives of LGBT community members: Justice Chandrachud said during the ruling
  • Sep 06, 12:29 PM (IST)
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  • Sep 06, 12:25 PM (IST)
    JUST IN: "There must be a time to end historical discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and choice and that time is now," Justice DY Chandrachud said in his judgement.
  • Sep 06, 12:24 PM (IST)
    JUST IN: "I personally think homosexuality is a genetic flaw, one is born with it. But, there’s no finality in SC’s judgment today," Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy told CNN-News18.
  • Sep 06, 12:21 PM (IST)
    JUST IN: "We have finally got justice. We are finally 'azaad in azaad Hind'," says Ashok Row Kavi, LGBT rights activist and founder of Humsafar Trust
  • Sep 06, 12:20 PM (IST)
  • Sep 06, 12:16 PM (IST)
    Justice Nariman has held that homosexuality cannot be regarded as a mental disorder.
    Suresh Koushal no longer good law in view of NALSA and Puttaswamy judgment, he added while reading out the verdict.
  • Sep 06, 12:14 PM (IST)
    This case is much more than just decriminalising a provision. It is about an aspiration to realise the constitutional rights and equal existence of the LGBT community as other citizens: Justice Chandrachud
  • Sep 06, 12:13 PM (IST)
    The judgment declares Section 377 of the IPC as unconstitutional to the extent that it criminalises consensual sexual acts between adults, whether homosexual or heterosexual. Bestiality will however continue to be an offence.
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  • Sep 06, 11:54 AM (IST)
    The LGBT community has same rights as of any ordinary citizen. Respect for each other’s rights, and others are supreme humanity. Criminalising gay sex is irrational and indefensible: CJI Dipak Misra
  • Sep 06, 11:52 AM (IST)
    BREAKING NEWS: The Supreme Court of India has struck down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.
  • Sep 06, 11:49 AM (IST)
    LGBT community has the same rights like other members of society: CJI
  • Sep 06, 11:45 AM (IST)
    Criminalising carnal sex is irrational, CJI Misra has said.
  • Sep 06, 11:45 AM (IST)
    Criminalising carnal sex is irrational, CJI Misra has said.
  • Sep 06, 11:44 AM (IST)
    CJI Misra observes, "No one can escape from their individualism. Society is now better for individualism. In the present case, our deliberations will be on various spectrums".
  • Sep 06, 11:43 AM (IST)
    Sustenance of identity is the pyramid of life, observes CJI Dipak Misra
  • Sep 06, 11:43 AM (IST)
    Have to bid adieu to prejudices: CJI
  • Sep 06, 11:41 AM (IST)
    CJI Dipak Misra begins reading judgement, 'no one can escape who they are'.
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